Table of Contents

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: Seyahatanamé (1)
Evliya Chelebi: Seyahatanamé (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 Hürriyet
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. Resistance
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

About the Author

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.

Reviews

"This is without question the best survey of modern Middle Eastern history currently available in English. It is comprehensive, lucid, nuanced and up-to-date, but it is also a good read-very well-written and entirely accessible to students and general readers alike. I recommend it without hesitation to anyone who wants to acquire a solid understanding of the history of this region from the late Ottoman period onward, and it's a must-read for people who really
want to make sense of what is going on in this region today."--Zachary Lockman, New York University
"Gelvin's book is among the very best overviews of the modern Middle East. Its great virtue is that he lets readers in on the really exciting thing about this history--the debate over what has driven the region's dramatic developments. He is also attentive to the history of social classes--beyond just the political elite--and to that of major social movements. It is an essential text for our time."--Juan Cole, University of Michigan
"The Modern Middle East is by far the best textbook for introductory and survey courses. In a humorous and conversational style, it offers a substantial analytical and interpretive framework, not just a litany of dry facts that most students will likely forget after their exams. The book accomplishes two objectives at once: it teaches students how to think about history and it introduces them to many of the key issues of the modern Middle East."--Joel
Beinin, Stanford University