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100 1 $aGoldschmidt, Arthur,$d1938-
245 12 $aA concise history of the Middle East /$cArthur Goldschmidt Jr.
250 $a7th ed., 25th anniversary ed.
260 $aBoulder, Colo. :$bWestview Press,$c2002.
300 $axvi, 504 p. :$bill., maps ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 457-482) and index.
505 0 $aWhat Is History? -- Then and Now, There and Here -- The Physical Setting -- Some Descriptive Geography -- The Middle East Before Muhammad -- A Minimum of Antiquity -- Persia and Rome -- The Arabs -- The Prophet of Mecca -- Muhammad's Early Life -- The Emigration (Hijrah) -- Assessment -- What Is Islam? -- Basic Beliefs -- The Five Pillars of Islam -- The Early Arab Conquests -- The Succession Issue -- The Initial Conquests -- The Beginnings of Islamic Government -- Dissension in the Ummah -- Changes in the Government of Islam -- The High Caliphate -- Restoration of the Umayyad Order -- The Downfall of the Umayyads -- The Abbasid Caliphate -- The Decline of the Abbasids -- Shi'is and Turks, Crusaders and Mongols -- Shi'i Islam in Power -- The Turks -- The Crusades -- The Mongol Invasion -- Islamic Civilization -- The Rules and Laws of Islam -- Development of Jurisprudence -- Islamic Society -- Importance of Family Life -- Intellectual Life -- Theology -- Firearms, Slaves, and Empires -- The Mamluks -- The Mongol Il-Khanids -- The Religious Issue -- Gunpowder Technology -- The Ottoman Empire -- Persia under the Safavids -- European Interests and Imperialism -- Ottoman Weakness -- The European Powers and the Eastern Question -- Westernizing Reform in the Nineteenth Century -- Egypt -- Westernization of the Ottoman Empire -- Persia under the Qajars -- Some Afterthoughts -- The Rise of Nationalism -- Egyptian Nationalism -- Ottomanism, Pan-Islam, and Turkism -- Nationalism in Persia -- The Roots of Arab Bitterness -- Arab Nationalism -- World War I -- The Postwar Peace Settlement -- Modernizing Rulers in the Independent States -- Turkey: Phoenix from the Ashes -- From Persia to Iran -- The Rise of Saudi Arabia -- Egypt's Struggle for Independence -- Britain's Role in Egypt -- The Egyptian Revolution -- A Strange Ending -- The Contest for Palestine -- Origins -- The Beginnings of Political Zionism -- Britain and the Palestine Problem -- Israel's Rebirth and the Rise of Arab Nationalism -- Israel's War for Independence -- The War's Aftermath -- The Arab Countries -- Israel's Early Years -- Middle Eastern Oil -- The Great Powers and the Arab World -- War and the Quest for Peace -- The June 1967 War -- The Palestinians -- Abortive Peace Efforts -- Political Changes: 1967-1970 -- Danger Signs in the Middle East -- The October (Yom Kippur) War -- The War's Aftermath -- Lebanon: The Arena for a New Arab Struggle -- The Road to Camp David -- The Reassertion of Islamic Power -- Prefatory Remarks on Islam and Politics -- The Iranian Revolution -- The Struggle for Gulf Supremacy -- The Retreat from Camp David -- Western Policy Formation and Islamic Polity -- The Gulf War and the Peace Proces -- The Present in Historical Perspective -- The Gulf War -- Operation Desert Storm -- Palestinians and the Peace Process -- Whither Islam? -- A Parting Message.
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