Middle East and Islamic World Reader / Edition 1 available in Paperback
Middle East and Islamic World Reader / Edition 1
- ISBN-10:
- 0802139361
- ISBN-13:
- 2900802139367
- Pub. Date:
- 04/04/2003
- Publisher:
- Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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Overview
With carefully framed essays beginning each chapter and brief introductory notes accompanying over seventy readings, the anthology reveals the multifaceted societies and political systems of the Islamic world. Selections range from theological texts illuminating the differences between Shiite and Sunni Muslims, to diplomatic exchanges and state papers, to memoirs and literary works, to manifestos of Islamic radicals. The anthology spans the distance from Tunisia to India through writings by such key figures as the early Muslim historian Ibn Khaldun, Turkish founding father Kemal Ataturk, Israeli statesman David Ben-Gurion, and the Iranian revolutionary leader Ayatollah Khomeini. The readings chart the effects of the Islamic world's interactions with outsiders from the invasions of Central Asian nomads and Crusading Europeans in the Middle Ages, to European colonization in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as well as its own internal evolution, through accounts of peasants, urban workers, and the experience of Muslim women.
Wide-ranging and thought-provoking, The Middle East and Islamic World Reader is a fascinating historical survey of complexsocieties that now more than ever are crucial for us to understand.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 2900802139367 |
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Publisher: | Grove/Atlantic, Inc. |
Publication date: | 04/04/2003 |
Edition description: | New Edition |
Pages: | 400 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d) |
Table of Contents
General Introduction | 1 | |
Chapter I | Islamic Beginnings: Revelation, State Building, and Culture | |
Introduction | 5 | |
1. | The Quran and other Islamic Texts | 12 |
2. | Shiite and Sunni Views on Political Legitimacy | 21 |
(a) | Abd al-Hassan Ali al-Mawardi, On Choosing a Caliph | 22 |
(b) | Allama al-Hilli on the Shiite Imamate | 24 |
3. | Abu Ali al-Husayn ibn Sina [Avicenna], The Ideal Muslim Intellectual | 26 |
4. | Rabia al-Adawiyya al-Qaysiyya, A Woman's Voice in Sufi Poetry | 29 |
5. | Abu al-Rayhum Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni, A Muslim Scholar Examines Hinduism | 31 |
Chapter II | From the Coming of Steppe Peoples to the Age of Gunpowder Empires | |
Introduction | 37 | |
6. | Disasters Strike the Muslim World | 46 |
(a) | Usamah ibn-Munquidh, An Arab Perspective on the Crusades | 46 |
(b) | Rashid al-Din Fazlullah, The Mongol Conquest of Baghdad | 48 |
(c) | Ahmad al-Maqrizi, The Bubonic Plague in Syria and Egypt | 51 |
7. | Abd al-Rahman ibn Khaldun, Effective Rule and Dynastic Cycles | 54 |
8. | Shah Abbas and Emperor Jahangir Debate the Persian Conquest of Kandahar | 58 |
9. | Suraiya Faroqhi, Ottoman Women's Lives | 62 |
Chapter III | Contradictions of Modernity: Imperialism and Social Change | |
Introduction | 69 | |
10. | Decrees from the Ottoman Tanzimat | 80 |
(a) | The Gulhane Proclamation | 81 |
(b) | An Ottoman "Bill of Rights" | 82 |
11. | Social and Economic Change in the Ottoman Empire | 84 |
(a) | Suraiya Faroqhi, Ottoman Peasants | 85 |
(b) | Hanna Batatu, Political Centralization in Iraq and Kurdistan | 88 |
(c) | Donald Quataert, Manufacturing Workshops | 92 |
(d) | Alexander Scholch, European Trade with Palestine | 95 |
12. | Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, Plan for Islamic Union | 97 |
Chapter IV | The Two World Wars and Their Aftermaths | |
Introduction | 103 | |
13. | Conflicting Promises During World War I | 113 |
(a) | Sharif Husayn ibn Ali, Desire for Arab Independence | 113 |
(b) | Sir Henry McMahon, Qualifying British Pledges | 115 |
(c) | The Sykes-Picot Agreement on Dividing up Arab Lands | 116 |
14. | Vahakn N. Dadrian, The Fate of the Armenians in World War I | 119 |
15. | Challenges to New Nations: Afghanistan, Turkey, and the Fertile Crescent | 122 |
(a) | Queen Soraya, The Liberation of Afghan Women | 123 |
(b) | Mustafa Kemal, Design for a Modern Secular Turkish State | 125 |
(c) | Halide Edib [Adivar], Dictatorship and Reform in Turkey | 127 |
(d) | Michel Aflaq, Purifying the National Ideal: Baath Ideology | 132 |
16. | Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Divide India; Create Pakistan | 135 |
17. | Peter Sluglett and Marion Farouk-Sluglett, Divide and Rule in British-Controlled Iraq | 138 |
Chapter V | Arabs and Zionists Struggle Over Palestine | |
Introduction | 147 | |
18. | Zionism and its Early Arab Opponents | 165 |
(a) | Theodor Herzl, Zionism: The Vision of an Eventual Jewish State | 165 |
(b) | Rashid Rida, Pay Attention to Zionist Encroachment | 168 |
(c) | "Tiberias," Warning of Zionist Colonization | 168 |
19. | The Balfour Declaration and the Mandate Period | 169 |
(a) | The Balfour Declaration: A Jewish Home in Palestine | 170 |
(b) | The General Syrian Congress, Our Objections to Zionism and Western Imperialism | 171 |
(c) | James Ramsay MacDonald, Letter to Chaim Weizmann | 173 |
(d) | Vladimir Jabotinsky, Let Us Settle Palestine and Transjordan | 174 |
20. | Palestine on Eve of World War II | 176 |
(a) | Ted Swedenburg, The Palestinian Revolt, 1936-39 | 177 |
(b) | The Arab Response to the Proposed Partition of Palestine | 182 |
(c) | The British Government's White Paper on Palestine | 184 |
(d) | The Biltmore Program | 186 |
21. | The Creation of the State of Israel | 188 |
(a) | UN General Assembly, the Partition Plan: Resolution #181 | 189 |
(b) | UN General Assembly, Palestinian Right of Return: Resolution #194 | 191 |
(c) | The Israeli Knesset, The Law of Return | 192 |
22. | Arab Assertions: Out of Despair Revived Nationalism | 193 |
(a) | Nizar Qabbani, The Catastrophe of Arab Defeat | 194 |
(b) | Palestinian National Council, The National Charter | 198 |
23. | Reaching for Peace: United Nations Security Council Resolutions | 201 |
(a) | UN Resolution #242: Withdrawal from Occupied Territory | 201 |
(b) | UN Resolution #338: End the Fighting | 203 |
24. | Transformation of Palestinian Politics | 203 |
(a) | Yasir Arafat, We Recognize Israel | 204 |
(b) | Hanan Mikhail-Ashrawi, The Meaning of the Intifada | 205 |
(c) | Charter of the Islamic Resistance Movement of Palestine (Hamas) | 207 |
25. | The Peace Process | 211 |
(a) | Principles of a Peace Agreement--Oslo, Norway | 212 |
(b) | Yitzhak Rabin, The Price of Occupation | 214 |
(c) | The Taba Negotiations | 215 |
26. | Impasse and New Intifada | 221 |
(a) | King Husayn I of Jordan, Eulogy of Yitzhak Rabin | 221 |
(b) | Ariel Sharon, Program for Dealing with the Palestinians | 222 |
(c) | Marwan Barghouti, Grassroots Leadership and the Second Intifada | 225 |
(d) | The Arab League, Ratification of the Peace Plan Proposed by Crown Prince Abdullah ibn Abd al-Aziz of Saudi Arabia | 228 |
(e) | Palestinian Intellectuals' Urgent Appeal to Stop Suicide Bombings | 230 |
(f) | George W. Bush, A New and Different Palestinian Leadership | 232 |
Chapter VI | Geopolitics of Oil and the Cold War Conflict | |
Introduction | 237 | |
27. | U.S. Presidential Policies, 1947-2002 | 244 |
(a) | The Truman Doctrine | 245 |
(b) | The Eisenhower Doctrine | 247 |
(c) | George H. W. Bush, The New World Order | 248 |
(d) | William J. Clinton, The Battle Against Terrorism | 250 |
(e) | George W. Bush, Beyond Containment and Deterrence to Preemptive Action | 251 |
28. | Intervention and Revolution in Iran | 253 |
(a) | Muhammad Mossadeq, Nationalizing Iranian Oil | 254 |
(b) | Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini, Iran in Imperialism's Clutches | 255 |
(c) | Ervand Abrahamian, Democracy or Theocracy: Iran's Islamic Republic | 257 |
29. | OPEC and the World Economy | 262 |
(a) | Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries: Getting Our Share | 262 |
(b) | Crown Prince Fahd ibn Abd al-Aziz, Oil and the World Economy | 263 |
30. | Wars at the End of the Twentieth Century and the Beginning of the Twenty-First | 266 |
(a) | Joe Stork, The First Gulf War: Iran vs. Iraq, 1980-88 | 266 |
(b) | The United Nations and the Second Gulf War: Security Council Resolution #687 | 269 |
(c) | George H. W. Bush, The Second Gulf War and Kicking the Vietnam Syndrome | 271 |
(d) | Zbigniew Brzezinski, "Some Stirred-up Muslims": Reflections on Soviet Intervention in Afghanistan | 273 |
Chapter VII | Ideologies, Movements, and Social Trends | |
Introduction | 277 | |
31. | Egypt and Lebanon: Secularism and Confessionalism | 288 |
(a) | Jamal Abd al-Nasser, Arab Socialism | 289 |
(b) | Anwar Sadat, Infitah: Opening to the West | 291 |
(c) | The Taif Agreement: Syrian Influence over Lebanon | 293 |
32. | Early Ideologues of Islamic Radicalism | 296 |
(a) | Taqi al-Din Ahmad ibn Taimiyya, Against Heretical Innovation | 297 |
(b) | Hasan al-Banna, Overcome Western Materialism | 300 |
(c) | Sayyid Qutb, Corruptions of the Modern World | 303 |
33. | Modern Islamic Radicalism | 306 |
(a) | Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Egypt's Islamic Militants | 307 |
(b) | Taliban Decrees about Women, Men's Beards, Children's Games, and Music | 310 |
Chapter VIII | 9/11: Terrorism, War, Global Responsibility | |
Introduction | 317 | |
34. | The Threat of Osama bin Laden and American Responses | 324 |
(a) | Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders: The 1998 Fatwa | 325 |
(b) | George W. Bush, Hand Over Terrorists or Share Their Fate | 327 |
(c) | Congresswoman Barbara Lee, No Blank Check to President Bush | 329 |
35. | The Policy Debate | 331 |
(a) | George W. Bush, Battling the Axis of Evil | 332 |
(b) | Brent Scowcroft, Don't Attack Saddam | 334 |
(c) | Richard A. Falk, Global Patriotism | 337 |
36. | The Historical Context: The West and Islam | 344 |
(a) | Bernard Lewis, The Clash of Civilizations | 345 |
(b) | Edward W. Said, The Clash of Ignorance | 349 |
Glossary | 355 | |
Select Bibliography | 363 | |
Index | 369 |