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Problems of the modern Middle East in historical perspective essays in honour of Albert Hourani

The late Albert Hourani was the leading European historian of the Middle East. Former director of the Middle East Centre at St Antony's College, Oxford, he was widely known and respected for his numerous writings on the Middle East and Islam. This book is a collection of historical studies on t...

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Other Authors: Spagnolo, John P (Editor), Hourani, Albert, œd 1915-1993 (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Reading Published for the Middle East Centre, St. Antony's College, Oxford by Ithaca Press 1992
Edition:First paperback edition
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Table of Contents:
  • Albert Hourani : an appreciation
  • The establishment and dismantling of the province of Syria, 1865-1888 / Butrus Abu-Manneh
  • From consciousness to activism : feminist politics in early twentieth century Egypt / Margot Badran
  • Continuity in modern Egyptian history : the Wafd and the Muslim Brothers / Marius Deeb
  • Women and conflict in Lebanon / Leila Fawaz
  • Nizam ma fi : discourses of order, disorder and history in a Lebanese context / Michael Gilsenan
  • Taha Husayn : the critical spirit / Ibrahim Ibrahim
  • Society and ideology in late Ottoman Syria : class, education, profession and confession / Rashid Khalidi
  • Abd el-Kader and Arab nationalism / Yohn King
  • The Jewish-Zionist and Arab-Palestinian national communities : the transposing effect of a century of confrontation / Moshe Maʻoz
  • Revolutionaries, fundamentalists and women : alternative groups in the Arab world / A. Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot
  • Water in the international relations of the Middle East : Israel and the Jordan River system / Thomas Naff
  • Architecture and urban development : Cairo during the Ottoman Period (1517-1798) / André Raymond
  • The famine of 1915-1918 in Greater Syria / L. Schatkowski Schilcher
  • Sunnis and Shiʻis revisited : sectarianism and ethnicity in authoritarian Iraq / Peter Sluglett and Marion Farouk-Sluglett
  • The West and the overburdened history of the modern Middle East : some general considerations / John P. Spagnolo
  • A bibliography of Albert Hourani's published works / Mary Wilson

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