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History of the Modern Middle East
A guide to primary and secondary sources for the study of the modern Middle East.
Overviews
A History of the Middle East since the Rise of Islam by Call Number: DS62.4 .L47 2023Publication Date: 2022
Historical Background
The Formation of Islam: Religion and Society in the Near East, 600-1800 by Publication Date: 2004E-book
Islamic Societies to the Nineteenth Century: A Global History by 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 Call Number: DS292 .D35 2010Publication Date: 2010
Islamic Gunpowder Empires: Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals by Publication Date: 2010E-book
Also available in print.
The Empires of the Near East and India: Source Studies of the Safavid, Ottoman, and Mughal Literate Communities by Publication Date: 2019E-book
Modernity & the Middle East
Islamic Modernism and the Re-Enchantment of the Sacred in the Age of History by Publication Date: 2022E-book
Being Modern in the Middle East: Revolution, Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Arab Middle Class by Publication Date: 2014E-book
The Modern Middle East and North Africa: A History in Documents by Call Number: DS37.7 .C53 2014Publication Date: 2013
Sources in the History of the Modern Middle East by Call Number: DS62.4 .K53 2011Publication Date: 20102nd ed.
Ottomans Imagining Japan: East, Middle East, and Non-Western Modernity at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Publication Date: 2014E-book
Imperialism
Inventing the Middle East: Britain and the Persian Gulf in the Age of Global Imperialism by Publication Date: 2022E-book
Secularism & Constitutionalism
Constitutional Politics in the Middle East with Special Reference to Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan by Publication Date: 2008E-book
Justice Interrupted: The Struggle for Constitutional Government in the Middle East by Publication Date: 2013E-book
World War I & the Middle East
Redrawing the Middle East: Sir Mark Sykes, Imperialism and the Sykes-Picot Agreement by Publication Date: 2018E-book
Worldmaking in the Long Great War: How Local and Colonial Struggles Shaped the Modern Middle East by Publication Date: 2022E-book
Between the Ottomans and the Entente: The First World War in the Syrian and Lebanese Diaspora, 1908-1925 by 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 Call Number: DS63 .O94 2004Publication Date: 2004Available in print or as an e-book
The Last Ottoman Generation and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Publication Date: 2017E-book
State-Building in the Middle East and North Africa: One Hundred Years of Nationalism, Religion and Politics by Call Number: DS63 .S73 2022Publication Date: 2021
Empires of Antiquities: Modernity and the Rediscovery of the Ancient Near East, 1914-1950 by Call Number: DS56 .M45 2020Publication Date: 2020
Nationalism
Arab Nationalism in the Twentieth Century: From Triumph to Despair by Publication Date: 2016New chapter on the twenty-first-century Arab world
E-book
Arab Nationalism: Nation and State in the Arab World by Call Number: DS62.7 .C46 2000Publication Date: 2000
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
The Israel-Palestine Conflict: A History by Call Number: DS119.7 .G3895 2021Publication Date: 2021Fourth edition
The Arab-Israeli Conflict: An Introduction and Documentary Reader by Publication Date: 2024E-book
3rd edition
Documents on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1967-1983 by Call Number: DS119.7 .D618 1984Publication Date: 1984
Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish workers in Palestine, 1906-1948 by Publication Date: 1996E-book
Post-Colonial Middle East
The Twilight of the British Empire: British Intelligence and Counter-Subversion in the Middle East, 1948-63 by Publication Date: 2017E-book
Post-Colonial Syria and Lebanon: The Decline of Arab Nationalism and the Triumph of the State by Call Number: DS95.6.L4 C43 2007Publication Date: 2007
Iran Without Borders: Towards a Critique of the Postcolonial Nation by Call Number: DS266 .D238 2016Publication Date: 2016
Contemporary Middle East
Social Movements, Mobilization, and Contestation in the Middle East and North Africa by Publication Date: 2013E-book
2nd edition.
The Levant Express: The Arab Uprisings, Human Rights, and the Future of the Middle East by Publication Date: 2019E-book
The Arts
Art of the Middle East: Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World and Iran by Call Number: N7265 .E44 2010Publication Date: 2010
Culture
Teachers As State-Builders: Education and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Publication Date: 2022E-book
Football in the Middle East: State, Society, and the Beautiful Game by Call Number: E-bookPublication Date: 2022
Women & Gender
The Rights of Women in Islam by Call Number: HQ1170 .E55 2004Publication Date: 20042nd revised edition
Memory Voice and Identity: Muslim Women’s Writing from Across the Middle East by Publication Date: 2021E-book
Women in the Middle East and North Africa: Change and Continuity by Call Number: HQ1726.5 .H34 2010Publication Date: 2010
Religion
Islam and Politics in the Middle East: Explaining the Views of Ordinary Citizens by Publication Date: 2015E-book
Muslim Preaching in the Middle East and Beyond: Historical and Contemporary Case Studies by Publication Date: 2020E-book
Islamic Identity and Development after the Ottomans: The Arab Middle East by Publication Date: 2023E-book
Society
Beyond Piety and Politics: Religion, Social Relations, and Public Preferences in the Middle East and North Africa by Publication Date: 2022E-book
