The Middle East Today : Political, Geographical and Cultural Perspectives


Dona. Stewart
Bok Engelsk 2008 · Electronic books.
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Hoboken : : Taylor and Francis, , 2008.
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1 online resource (570 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - CONTENTS; LIST OF TABLES; LIST OF MAPS; LIST OF BOXES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PART I INTRODUCTION TO THE REGION; 1 THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA: BETWEEN IMAGE AND REALITY; BEFORE THE MIDDLE EAST: THERE WAS THE 'ORIENT'; MISPERCEPTIONS OF ISLAM; TRAVELERS IN THE HOLY LAND; RELATIONS BETWEEN ISLAM AND THE WEST: A CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS?; DEBATE WITHIN THE ISLAMIC WORLD; A WORD OF CAUTION: A CONFUSION OF LABELS; QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION; SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING; Books and articles; Television; Newspapers; 2 THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA; DEFINING THE MIDDLE EAST. - PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHYClimate; LANDFORMS AND WATER; RIVER SYSTEMS AND SEAS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; NON-ARAB ETHNIC GROUPS; Berber; Iranians (Persian); Turkic peoples; Kurds; RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY IN THE MENA; Islam; Shia sects; Maronite Christians; Copts; Assyrian Christians; Jews; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION; SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING; PART II EMERGENCE AND EVOLUTION OF THE REGION; 3 THE CONTEMPORARY STATE SYSTEMS; CHALLENGES TO THE STATE SYSTEM; TYPES OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS; Monarchies; 'Presidential' and authoritarian systems. - Parliamentary systemsStates in transition; CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN POLITICS; QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION; SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING; 4 HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONS; THE PRE-ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST; THE COMING OF ISLAM; THE REVELATION OF ISLAM; THE DEATH OF MUHAMMAD AND THE SUCCESSION; ABBASID AND UMAYYAD CALIPHATES; INFLUENCE FROM THE STEPPES: THE MONGOL AND TURKIC INVASIONS; THE SAFAVIDS AND THE OTTOMANS; THE OTTOMANS; QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION; SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING; 5 THE MAKING OF THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST; THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE; EUROPEAN PENETRATION OF THE MIDDLE EAST. - QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION. - THE IRANIAN REVOLUTIONIRAQ AND THE GULF WARS; THE IRAQI INVASION OF KUWAIT; THE US INVASION OF IRAQ; QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION; SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING; 7 CONTEMPORARY ISLAMIST THOUGHT; THE DEVELOPMENT OF WAHHABISM IN ARABIA; WAHHABISM AND SAUDI ARABIA; JAMAL AL-DIN AL-AFGHANI (1839-97); MUHAMMAD ABDUH (1849-1905); RASHID RIDA (1865-1935); HASSAN AL BANNA (1906-49) AND THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD; SAYYID QUTB (1906-66) AND THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD; KHOMEINI AND ISLAMIC REVOLUTION; AFGHANISTAN AND ISLAMIST RESURGENCE IN THE 1990S; AL-QAEDA AND AL-QAEDISM; SEPTEMBER 11 AND THE WAR ON TERROR. - WORLD WAR I AND THE END OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIREDRAWING THE NEW MAP OF THE MIDDLE EAST; EMERGING NATIONALISM; THE CREATION OF MODERN TURKEY; EGYPTIAN NATIONALISM; THE IRANIAN CONSTITUTIONAL REVOLUTION; MOVING TOWARD INDEPENDENCE; QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION; SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING; 6 THE EMERGENCE OF INDEPENDENT STATES AND GEOPOLITICS; POST-WORLD WAR II INDEPENDENCE; THE BRITISH WITHDRAWAL FROM PALESTINE; THE FIRST ISRAELI-ARAB WAR (1948); THE COLD WAR AND THE MIDDLE EAST; NASSER: EGYPT DURING THE COLD WAR; THE 1967 WAR; THE 1973 ARAB-ISRAELI WAR; RISING IMPORTANCE OF OIL. - The new edition of The Middle East Today provides an accessible and comprehensive introductory textbook for undergraduate students of Middle East Studies, Middle East politics and geography. This updated and revised edition features a host of pedagogical features to assist students with their learning, including; detailed maps and images, case studies on key issues, boxed sections and suggestions for further reading. The book highlights the current issues facing the Middle East, linking them to the rich political, geographical and cultural history of the region. The author examines t
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The Middle East today : political, geographical and cultural perspectives
Dona J. Stewart

Bok · Engelsk · 2009

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