| Description |
xx, 243 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The Ottoman background of the modern Middle East -- The Islamic city -- Ottoman reform and the politics of notables -- A note on revolutions in the Arab world -- Sufism and modern Islam : Mawlana Khalid and the Naqshbandi order -- Sufism and modern Islam : Rashid Rida -- The middleman in a changing society : Syrians in Egypt in he eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- Lebanon : the development of a political society -- Lebanon from feudalism to nation-state -- Lebanon : historians and the formation of a national image -- Ideologies of the mountain and the city : reflections on the Lebanese civil war -- Middle Eastern nationalism yesterday and today -- 'The Arab awakening forty years after'. |
| Subject |
Middle East -- History -- 1517-
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Middle East. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
1517- |
| Subject |
Moyen-Orient -- Histoire. |
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États arabes -- Histoire. |
| ISBN |
0520038626 |
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9780520038622 |
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0520038622 |
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