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    <namePart>Choueiri, Youssef M.</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1948-</namePart>
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    <place>
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    <publisher>Wiley-Blackwell</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2008</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xvii, 602 p. : ill., cartes ; 25 cm.</extent>
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  <abstract>A Companion to the History of the Middle East offers a fresh account of the multifaceted and multi-layered history of this region.</abstract>
  <tableOfContents>Introduction / Youseff M. Choueiri --
The formative period of Islam --
The rise of Islam / Gerald R. Hawting --
The Islamic conquests / Fred M. Donner --
The caliphate / Hugh Kennedy --
Cultural traditions and social structure --
The ʻulama:̉ function and status / Zouhair Ghazzal --
Shīʻism / Robert Gleave --
Historiography of Sufi studies in the West / Alexander Knysh --
Imperial structures and dynastic rule --
Military patronage states and the political economy of the frontier, 1000-1250 / Michael Chamberlain --
The Mamluk institution / P.M. Holt --
State and society in North Africa / Michael Brett --
A new Middle Eastern system --
Ottomans and Safavids: states, statecraft, and societies, 1500-1800 / Metin Kunt --
Urban life and Middle Eastern cities: the traditional Arab city / André Raymond (translated James McDougall) --
The Middle East and the new world order A different balance of power: European expansionism and the Middle East in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Abdul-Karim Rafeq --
Colonialism, the Qajars and the struggle for independence: the Arab world, Turkey, and Iran / Peter Sluglett --
Independence and nation building --
Zionism and the Palestine question / Emma C. Murphy --
Nationalisms in the Middle East: the case of Pan-Arabism / Youssef M. Choueiri --
Turkish and Iranian nationalisms / Ioannis N. Grigoriadis and Ali M. Ansari --
Political parties and trade unions / Raymond Hinnebusch --
Political life and the military / Gareth Stansfield --
Political economy: from modernisation to globalisation / Simon Murden --
Modern issues and contemporary challenges --
Islamic urbanism, urbanites, and the Middle Eastern city / Michael E. Bonine --
Oil and development / Paul Stevens --
Modernizing women in the Middle East / Valentine M. Moghadam --
Politics and religion / Beverley Milton-Edwards Ethno-national minorities in the Middle East: Berbers, Kurds, and Palestinians / Lise Storm --
Civil society in the Middle East / Tim Niblock --
The states-system in the Middle East: origins, developments, and prospects / Simon Bromley.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">edited by Youssef M. Choueiri.</note>
  <note>Publiâe aussi en version âelectronique.</note>
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    <geographic>Moyen-Orient</geographic>
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    <geographic>Medio Oriente</geographic>
    <topic>Historia</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">439 DS 62  C737 2008</classification>
  <classification authority="ddc">956</classification>
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