The Middle East and North Africa

, by Simon, Reeva S.; Goldstein, Phyllis; Wasserstein, Stephen; Simon, Reeva S.; Goldstein, Phyllis; Wasserstein, Stephen

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ISBN: 9780835904377 | 0835904377
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 12/1/1993

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The Land

(30)

What Is the Middle East?

(1)

What Elements Characterize the Region?

(5)

A Large Dry Region

(6)

Agriculture and Industry

(9)

Case Study: From an Egyptain Village

(6)

Problems of Development

(4)

Checkup

(5)

People and Culture

(24)

The Cities

(2)

Problems and Patterns of City Life

(10)

Case Study: Modern Cairo

(8)

Population Trends

(1)

The Villages

(3)

Israel

(4)

Checkup

(4)

People of the Ancient Middle East (c. 10,000 B.C.--A.D. 500)

(28)

The Process of Change

(5)

The Ancient Middle East (4000 B.C.--500 B.C.)

(4)

The Egyptains of the Nile Valley

(2)

Anatolia and the Mediterranean Coast

(4)

Case Study: The Book of Ruth

(2)

Persia, Greece, and Rome Rule the Middle East (500 B.C.--A.D. 500)

(3)

Judaism and Christianity

(5)

Checkup

(5)

Muhammad and the Emergence of Islam (A.D. 500--1000)

(24)

The Founding of Islam

(3)

Islam: the Religion

(6)

Case Study: The Example of the Prophet

(1)

Islam and the Individual

(3)

Islam As an Institution

(4)

The Expansion of Islam

100

(3)

Checkup

103

(4)

The Development of an Islamic Civilization (750--1400)

107

(28)

Bringing Together an Empire

107

(10)

Case Study: A Day in the Life of a Court Physician

116

(1)

Islamic Civilization (750--1000)

117

(9)

Invasion and Decline

126

(4)

Checkup

130

(5)

The Rise and Decline of the Ottoman Empire (1280--1914)

135

(28)

The Ottoman Empire, from Its Origins to the End of the Eighteenth Century

135

(10)

Case Study: The Ottoman Siege of Vienna

143

(2)

The Impact of the West

145

(5)

From the Era of Reform to World War I

150

(7)

Checkup

157

(6)

Two World Wars and Their Impact (1914--1967)

163

(34)

The Middle East After 1914

163

(3)

Turkey and Iran: Two Attempts at Modernization

166

(7)

Developments in the French Middle East

173

(3)

Palestine, a Troubled Land

176

(11)

Case Study: The Pioneers

180

(7)

Egypt in the Twentieth Century

187

(6)

Checkup

193

(4)

More Turbulent Years (1967--1989)

197

(32)

Religious Revival

197

(4)

No War, No Peace

201

(9)

The Politics of Oil

210

(4)

The Iranian Revolution

214

(5)

Case Study: The Fall of the Shah of Iran

217

(2)

Crisis in Lebanon

219

(7)

Checkup

226

(3)

The Middle East and the World (1989-Present)

229

(30)

War in the Persian Gulf

229

(6)

A Bitter Peace

235

(11)

Case Study: The Problems of Oil Wealth

239

(7)

A Window of Opportunity

246

(5)

Winds of Change

251

(4)

Checkup

255

(4)

Glossary

259

(6)

Bibliography

265

(3)

Index

268

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