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List of illustrations
Preface to the fifth edition
Acknowledgments
Note about place names and transliteration
Part 1: Development Of Islamic Civilization To The Eighteenth Century:
Rise and expansion of Islam
Development of Islamic civilization to the fifteenth century
Ottoman and Safavid empires: a new imperial synthesis
Part 2: Beginnings Of The Era Of Transformation:
Forging a new synthesis: the pattern of reforms, 1789-1849
Ottoman empire and Egypt during the era of the Tanzimat
Egypt and Iran in the late nineteenth century
Response of Islamic society
Era of the Young Turks and the Iranian constitutionalists
World War I and the end of the Ottoman order
Part 3: Struggle For Independence: The Interwar Era To The End Of World War II:
Authoritarian reform in Turkey and Iran
Arab struggle for independence: Egypt, Iraq, and Transjordan from the interwar era to 1945
Arab struggle for independence: Syria, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia from the interwar era to 1945
Palestine mandate and the birth of the state of Israel
Part 4: Independent Middle East From The End Of World War II To The 1970s:
Democracy and authoritarianism: Turkey and Iran
Middle East in the age of Nasser: the Egyptian base
Middle East in the age of Nasser: the radicalization of Arab politics
Israel and the Palestinians from 1948 to the 1970s
Part 5: Resurgence Of Islam: The Middle East From The 1970s To The 1991 Gulf War
Iranian Revolution and the revival of Islam
Changing patterns of war and peace: Egypt and Lebanon in the 1970s and 1980s
Arabian Peninsula in the petroleum era
Consolidation of authoritarian rule in Syria and Iraq: the regimes of Hafiz al-Asad and Saddam Husayn
Part 6: Challenges To The Existing Order: The Middle East In The 1990s And 2000s:
Palestinian Intifada and the 1991 Gulf War
Peace so near, a peace so far: Palestinian-Israeli relations since the 1991 Gulf War
Patterns of continuity and change in Turkey, Iran, and Lebanon
America's troubled moment in the Middle East
2011 Arab uprisings
Glossary
Select bibliography
Index.

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