- Find Information
- Research Guides
- History of the Modern Middle East
History of the Modern Middle East
A guide to primary and secondary sources for the study of the modern Middle East.
- Getting Started
- Primary Source Databases
- Books by Topic
- Overviews
- Historical Background
- Gunpowder Empires
- Modernity & the Middle East
- Imperialism
- Secularism & Constitutionalism
- World War I & the Middle East
- State Building After World War I
- Nationalism
- The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
- Post-Colonial Middle East
- Contemporary Middle East
- The Arts
- Culture
- Women & Gender
- Religion
- Society
- Online Resources
- Writing & Citing
Overviews
The Modern Middle East: A History by James L. Gelvin
Call Number: DS62.4 .G37 2020Publication Date: 20205th editionA History of the Modern Middle East: Rulers, Rebels, and Rogues by Betty S. Anderson
Publication Date: 2020E-bookA History of the Modern Middle East by William L. Cleveland; Martin Bunton
Call Number: DS62.4 .C53 2013Publication Date: 2013A Concise History of the Middle East by Arthur Goldschmidt Jr.; Ibrahim Al-Marashi
Publication Date: 201912th edition
E-bookA History of the Middle East since the Rise of Islam by David W. Lesch
Call Number: DS62.4 .L47 2023Publication Date: 2022
Historical Background
The Formation of Islam: Religion and Society in the Near East, 600-1800 by Jonathan P. Berkey
Publication Date: 2004E-bookIslamic Civilization in Thirty Lives: The First 1,000 Years by Chase F. Robinson
Publication Date: 2016E-bookIslamic Societies to the Nineteenth Century: A Global History by Ira M. Lapidus
Call Number: DS35.63 .L36 2012Publication Date: 2012E-book
Also available in print
Gunpowder Empires
The Muslim Empires of the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals by Stephen F. Dale
Call Number: DS292 .D35 2010Publication Date: 2010Islamic Gunpowder Empires: Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals by Douglas E. Streusand
Publication Date: 2010E-book
Also available in print.
Modernity & the Middle East
Islamic Modernism and the Re-Enchantment of the Sacred in the Age of History by Monica M. Ringer
Publication Date: 2022E-bookUnsettling Colonial Modernity in Islamicate Contexts by Siavash Saffari, ed.
Publication Date: 2017E-bookThe Modern Middle East and North Africa: A History in Documents by Julia Clancy-Smith; Charles Smith
Call Number: DS37.7 .C53 2014Publication Date: 2013Sources in the History of the Modern Middle East by Akram Fouad Khater
Call Number: DS62.4 .K53 2011Publication Date: 20102nd ed.
Imperialism
Napoleon's Egypt: Invading the Middle East by Juan Cole
Call Number: DT100 .C65 2007Publication Date: 2007Inventing the Middle East: Britain and the Persian Gulf in the Age of Global Imperialism by Guillemette Crouzet
Publication Date: 2022E-bookPromised Lands: The British and the Ottoman Middle East by Jonathan Parry
Publication Date: 2022E-book
Secularism & Constitutionalism
Secularism in the Arab World: Contexts, Ideas and Consequences by Aziz al-Azmeh
Publication Date: 2021E-bookRevolution and Constitutionalism in the Ottoman Empire and Iran by Nader Sohrabi
Publication Date: 2011E-bookJustice Interrupted: The Struggle for Constitutional Government in the Middle East by Elizabeth F. Thompson
Publication Date: 2013E-book
World War I & the Middle East
The Fall of the Ottomans: the Great War in the Middle East by Eugene Rogan
Publication Date: 2015E-bookRedrawing the Middle East: Sir Mark Sykes, Imperialism and the Sykes-Picot Agreement by Michael D. Berdine
Publication Date: 2018E-bookBetween the Ottomans and the Entente: The First World War in the Syrian and Lebanese Diaspora, 1908-1925 by Stacy D. Fahrenthold
Call Number: DS94.7 .F34 2021Publication Date: 2021
State Building After World War I
State, Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East by Roger Owen
Call Number: DS63 .O94 2004Publication Date: 2004Available in print or as an e-bookThe Last Ottoman Generation and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Michael Provence
Publication Date: 2017E-bookState-Building in the Middle East and North Africa: One Hundred Years of Nationalism, Religion and Politics by Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou (Editor)
Call Number: DS63 .S73 2022Publication Date: 2021Empires of Antiquities: Modernity and the Rediscovery of the Ancient Near East, 1914-1950 by Billie Melman
Call Number: DS56 .M45 2020Publication Date: 2020
Nationalism
Arab Nationalism in the Twentieth Century: From Triumph to Despair by Adeed Dawisha
Publication Date: 2016New chapter on the twenty-first-century Arab world
E-bookArab Nationalism: Nation and State in the Arab World by Youssef M. Choueiri
Call Number: DS62.7 .C46 2000Publication Date: 2000
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
The Israel-Palestine Conflict: A History by James L. Gelvin
Call Number: DS119.7 .G3895 2021Publication Date: 2021Fourth editionThe Arab-Israeli Conflict: An Introduction and Documentary Reader by Gregory S. Mahler
Publication Date: 2024E-book
3rd editionDocuments on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1967-1983 by Yehuda Lukacs
Call Number: DS119.7 .D618 1984Publication Date: 1984Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish workers in Palestine, 1906-1948 by Zachary Lockman
Publication Date: 1996E-book
Post-Colonial Middle East
The Edinburgh Companion to the Postcolonial Middle East by Anna Ball (Editor); Karim Mattar (Editor)
Publication Date: 2019E-bookPost-Colonial Syria and Lebanon: The Decline of Arab Nationalism and the Triumph of the State by Youssef Chaitani
Call Number: DS95.6.L4 C43 2007Publication Date: 2007Iran Without Borders: Towards a Critique of the Postcolonial Nation by Hamid Dabashi
Call Number: DS266 .D238 2016Publication Date: 2016
Contemporary Middle East
The New Middle East: Protest and Revolution in the Arab World by Fawaz A. Gerges (Editor)
Publication Date: 2013E-bookSocial Movements, Mobilization, and Contestation in the Middle East and North Africa by Joel Beinin (Editor); édéric Vairel (Editor)
Publication Date: 2013E-book
2nd edition.The Levant Express: The Arab Uprisings, Human Rights, and the Future of the Middle East by Micheline R. Ishay
Publication Date: 2019E-bookThe Contemporary Middle East: A Documentary History by John D. Felton (Editor)
Publication Date: 2007E-bookThe Middle East: A Reader by Michael Curtis (Editor)
Publication Date: 2023E-book
Originally published in 1986.Oil States in the New Middle East: Uprisings and Stability by Kjetil Selvik (Editor); Bjø Olav Utvik (Editor)
Publication Date: 2015E-bookFragile Politics: Weak States in the Greater Middle East by Mehran Kamrava (Editor)
Publication Date: 2016E-book
The Arts
Arabicity: Contemporary Arab Art by Rose Issa (Editor)
Call Number: N7265.3 .A733 2019Publication Date: 2019Art of the Middle East: Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World and Iran by Saeb Eigner;
Call Number: N7265 .E44 2010Publication Date: 2010Contemporary Art in the Middle East by Nadine Monem
Call Number: N7265.3 .C667 2009Publication Date: 2009Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East by Lisa Farmjam; Saatchi Gallery
Call Number: N7265 .U68 2009Publication Date: 2009
Culture
The Press in the Middle East and North Africa, 1850-1950 by Anthony Gorman (Editor); Didier Monciaud (Editor)
Publication Date: 2017E-bookPopular Culture in the Middle East and North Africa by Walid El Hamamsy (Editor); Mounira Soliman (Editor)
Publication Date: 2013E-bookTeachers As State-Builders: Education and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Hilary Falb Kalisman
Publication Date: 2022E-bookDocumentary Filmmaking in the Middle East and North Africa by Viola Shafik (Editor)
Publication Date: 2022E-bookFootball in the Middle East: State, Society, and the Beautiful Game by Abdullah Al-Arian (Editor)
Call Number: E-bookPublication Date: 2022
Women & Gender
The Rights of Women in Islam by Ali Asghar
Call Number: HQ1170 .E55 2004Publication Date: 20042nd revised editionRoutledge Handbook on Women in the Middle East by Suad Joseph (Editor); Zeina Zaatari (Editor)
Publication Date: 2022E-bookA Social History of Women and Gender in the Modern Middle East by Margaret Lee Meriwether; Judith Tucker
Publication Date: 1999E-bookWomen in the Middle East and North Africa: Agents of Change by Fatima Sadiqi (Editor); Moha Ennaji (Editor)
Publication Date: 2010E-bookWomen in the Middle East and North Africa: Change and Continuity by Elhum Haghighat-Sordellini
Call Number: HQ1726.5 .H34 2010Publication Date: 2010
Religion
Islam and Politics in the Middle East: Explaining the Views of Ordinary Citizens by Mark Tessler
Publication Date: 2015E-bookRoutledge Handbook of Minorities in the Middle East by Paul S. Rowe (Editor)
Publication Date: 2018E-bookIslamic Identity and Development after the Ottomans: The Arab Middle East by Özay Mehmet
Publication Date: 2023E-book
Society
Routledge Handbook of Minorities in the Middle East by Paul S. Rowe (Editor)
Publication Date: 2018E-book