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Islam in History : Ideas, People, and Events in the Middle East

From secular-minded autocrats like Saddam Hussein to religious fundamentalists like Osama bin Laden, powerful voices in the Islamic world have been united by a fierce hatred of the West. If we want to know why they think the way they do, we have to understand the history of Islam and its continuous interactions with the West. This masterly collection of essays by a leading expert on Islam and the Middle East ranges over the whole sweep of Islamic history and Western attempts to comprehend it
eBook, English, 2011
Open Court, New York, 2011
History
1 online resource (494 pages)
9780812697575, 081269757X
784882011
Title Page; Preface; 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 Name13
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 IDEAS25
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; SOURCES; INDEX; Copyright Page