The Modern Middle East

James L. Gelvin is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. An award-winning teacher, he is the author of The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know (2015), The Israel-Palestine Conflict: One Hundred Years of War (2014), Divided Loyalties: Nationalism and Mass Politics in Syria at the Close of Empire (1998), and numerous shorter works. He is also coeditor of Global Muslims in the Age of Steam and Print.

Vignettes and Maps ; Acknowldegments ; A Note on Transliteration ; New to This Edition ; Introduction ; Part I: THE ADVENT OF THE MODERN AGE ; Chapter 1. From Late Antiquity to the Dawn of a New Age ; Chapter 2. Gunpowder Empires ; Chapter 3. The Middle East and the Modern World System ; Chapter 4. War, Diplomacy, and the New Global Balance of Power ; Documents ; Evliya Chelebi: Seyahataname (1) ; Evliya Chelebi: Seyahataname (2) ; Draft Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the Ottoman Empire and France, February 1535 ; The Travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East-Indies (1) ; The Travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East-Indies (2) ; Suggested Readings ; Part II: THE QUESTION OF MODERNITY ; Chapter 5. Defensive Developmentalism ; Chapter 6. Imperialism ; Chapter 7. Wasif Jawhariyyeh and the Great Nineteenth-Century Transformation ; Photo Essay: The Great Nineteenth-Century Transformation and its Aftermath ; Chapter 8. The Life of the Mind ; Chapter 9. Secularism and Modernity ; Chapter 10. Constitutionalism ; Documents ; Commercial Convention (Balta Liman): Britain and the Ottoman Empire ; The Hatt-i Sharif of Gulhane ; The Islahat Fermani ; The d'Arcy Oil Concession ; Algeria: The Poetry of Loss ; Huda Shaarawi: A New Mentor and Her Salon for Women ; Rifaca Rafic al-Tahtawi: The Extraction of Gold or an Overview of Paris ; Muhammad cAbduh: The Theology of Unity ; Namik Kemal: Extract from the Journal Hurriyet ; The Supplementary Fundamental Law of 7 October 1907 ; Suggested Readings ; Part III: WAR I AND THE MIDDLE EAST STATE SYSTEM ; Chapter 11. State-Building by Decree ; Chapter 12. State-Building by Revolution and Conquest ; Chapter 13. The Invention and Spread of Nationalisms ; Chapter 14. The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict ; Documents ; An Arab Soldier in the Ottoman Army ; Resolution of the Syrian General Congress at Damascus, 2 July 1919 ; Theodor Herzl: A Solution of the Jewish Question ; The Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917 ; Mahmud Darwish: Eleven Planets in the Last Andalusian Sky ; Suggested Readings ; Part IV: THE CONTEMPORARY ERA ; Chapter 15. The Autocratic State ; Chapter 16. Oil ; Chapter 17. The United States and the Middle East ; Chapter 18. Rebellion ; Chapter 19. The Arab Uprisings ; Conclusion The End of an Era? ; Documents ; Speech Delivered by President Gamal cAbd al-Nasser at Port-Said on the Occasion of Victory Day on 23 December 1961 ; Zakaria Tamer: Tigers on the Tenth Day ; Ali Sharicati: The Philosophy of History: The Story of Cain and Abel ; Ayatollah Khomeini: Islamic Government ; Sayyid Qutb: Milestones ; "Statement of the April 6 Movement Regarding the Demands of the Youth and the Refusal to Negotiate with any Side" ; Yassir al-Manawahly, "The International Monetary Fund" ; Suggested Readings ; Timeline ; Biographical Sketches ; Glossary ; Credits ; Index