| Edition |
New ed., rev. and expanded. |
| Description |
vii, 487 pages ; 24 cm |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 459-462) and index. |
| Contents |
PART I. The Western approaches -- 1. The study of Islam -- 2. Some English travelers in the east -- 3. The decolonization of history -- 4. On writing the modern history of the middle east -- 5. On nationalism and revolution -- 6. Slade on Turkey -- PART II. Muslim history and historians -- 7. Sources for the economic history of the middle east -- 8. In search of Islam's past -- 9. The use by Muslim historians of Non-Muslim sources -- 10. The cult of Spain and the Turkish Romantics -- PART III. Muslims and Jews -- 11. The Pro-Islamic Jews -- 12. Palestine: on the history and geography of a name -- 13. An ode against the Jews -- 14. The Sultan, the king, and the Jewish doctor -- PART IV. Turks and Tatars -- 15. The Mongols, the Turks, and the Muslim polity -- 16. Ottoman observers of Ottoman decline -- 17. The Ottoman empire and its aftermath -- 18. Ibn khaldun in Turkey -- PART V. In black and white -- 19. Corsairs in Iceland -- 20. The crows of the Arabs -- PART VI. History and revolution -- 21. State and society under Islam -- 22. The significance of heresy in Islam -- 23. The revolutions in early Islam -- 24. Islamic concepts of revolution PART VII. New ideas -- 25. The idea of freedom in modern Islamic political thought -- 26. On modern Arabic political terms -- 27. Islam and development: the revaluation of values -- PART VIII. New events -- 28. Behind the Rushdie affair -- 29. The Egyptian murder case -- 30. How Khomeini made it -- 31. The revolt of Islam -- 32. The Middle East crisis in historical perspective -- Notes. |
| Subject |
Islam -- History.
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Middle East -- Historiography.
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Middle East -- History -- 1517-
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Historiography. (OCoLC)fst00958221
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Islam. (OCoLC)fst00979776
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Middle East. (OCoLC)fst01241586
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
0812692160 |
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9780812692167 |
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0812692179 (pbk.) |
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9780812692174 (pbk.) |
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9780812695182 (pbk.) |
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0812695186 (pbk.) |
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