The Middle East and Islamic world reader
Traces the history of the core Islamic lands from their Golden Age to today, revealing the Muslim world's multi-faceted societies, political systems, key figures, and relationships with outside groups
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Broadway, NY
Grove Press
2003
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| Edition: | Revised and expanded edition |
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Table of Contents:
- Islamic beginnings: revelation, state building, and culture
- From the coming of steppe peoples to the age of gunpowder empires
- Contradictions of modernity: imperialism and social change
- The two world wars and their aftermaths
- Arabs and Zionists struggle over Palestine
- Geopolitics of oil and the Cold War conflict
- Ideologies, movements, and social trends
- 9/11: terrorism and wars, Arab citizens' revolt