Format:
Online-Ressource (623 p.)
ISBN:
9781405106818
Series Statement:
Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History Ser
Content:
A Companion to the History of the Middle East offers a fresh account of the multifaceted and multi-layered history of this region. A fresh account of the multifaceted and multi-layered history of the Middle EastComprises 26 newly-commissioned essays by leading international scholarsPrimarily focused on the modern and contemporary periodsCovers religious, social, cultural, economic, political and military historyTreats the region as four differentiated political units – Iran, Turkey, Israel and the Arab worldIncludes a section on current issues, such as oil, urban growth, the role of wome
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Description based upon print version of record
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A Companion to the History of the Middle East; Contents; 1 The Rise of Islam; 2 The Islamic Conquests; 3 The Caliphate; 4 The 'Ulama' : Status and Function; 5 Sh ism; 6 Historiography of Sufi Studies in the West; 7 Military Patronage States and the Political Economy of the Frontier, 1000-1250; 8 The Mamluk Institution; 9 North Africa: State and Society, 1056-1659; 10 Ottomans and Safavids: States, Statecraft, and Societies, 1500-1800; 11 Urban Life and Middle Eastern Cities: The Traditional Arab City
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12 A Different Balance of Power: Europe and the Middle East in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries13 Colonialism, the Ottomans, the Qajars, and the Struggle for Independence: The Arab World, Turkey, and Iran; 14 Zionism and the Palestine Question; 15 Nationalisms in the Middle East: The Case of Pan-Arabism; 16 Turkish and Iranian Nationalisms; 17 Political Parties and Trade Unions; 18 Political Life and the Military; 19 Political Economy: From Modernization to Globalization; 20 Islamic Urbanism, Urbanites, and the Middle Eastern City; 21 Oil and Development
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22 Modernizing Women in the Middle East23 Politics and Religion; 24 Ethnonational Minorities in the Middle East: Berbers, Kurds, and Palestinians; 25 Civil Society in the Middle East; 26 The States-system in the Middle East: Origins, Development, and Prospects;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781405152044
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781405183796
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe A Companion to the History of the Middle East
Language:
English
Keywords:
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