The Modern Middle East : a reader / edited by Albert Hourani, Philip S. Khoury and Mary C. Wilson.

"The Reader is designed to complement parts III-V of A History of the Arab Peoples" - preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reforming elites and changing relations with Europe, 1789-1918; transformations in society and economy, 1789-1918; the construction of nationalist ideologies and politics to the 1950s; the Middle East since the second World War.

The Ottoman 'Ulemā and Westernization in the time of Selīm III and Mahmūd II / Uriel Heyd -- Turkish attitudes concerning Christian-Muslim equality in the nineteenth century / Roderic H. Davison -- Ottoman reform and the politics of notables / Albert Hourani -- Egypt and Europe : from French expedition to British occupation / Roger Owen -- War and society under the Young Turks, 1908-18 / Feroz Ahmad -- Social change in Persia in the nineteenth century / Ann K.S. Lambton -- Middle East economic development, 1815-1914 : the general and the specific / Charles Issawi -- The origins of private ownership of land in Egypt : a reappraisal / Kenneth M. Cuno -- Decline of the family economy in mid-nineteenth-century Egypt / Judith Tucker -- Ottoman women, households, and textile manufacturing, 1800-1914 / Donald Quataert -- Said Bey : the everyday life of an Istanbul townsman at the beginning of the twentieth century / Paul Dumont -- The crowd in the Persian revolution / Ervand Abrahamian -- Cairo / André Raymond -- Religion and secularism in Turkey / Şerif Mardin -- From Ottomanism to Arabism : the origin of an ideology / C. Ernest Dawn -- 1919 : labor upsurge and national revolution / Joel Beinin, Zachary Lockman -- Syrian urban politics in transition : the quarters of Damascus during the French Mandate / Philip S. Khoury -- The role of the Palestinian peasantry in the Great Revolt (1936-1939) / Ted Swedenburg -- Of the diversity of Iraqis, the incohesiveness of their society, and their progress in the Monarchic Period toward a consolidated political structure / Hanna Batatu -- Consequences of the Suez Crisis in the Arab world / Rashid Khalidi -- Arab military in politics : from revolutionary plot to authoritarian state / Elizabeth Picard -- Political power and the Saudi state / Ghassan Salamé -- Iranian revolutions in comparative perspective / Nikki R. Keddie -- The religious right / Binnaz Toprak -- Dilemmas of the Jewish state / David McDowall -- Hazards of modernity and morality : women, state and ideology in contemporary Iran / Afsaneh Najmabadi.