The political awakening in the Middle East / Edited by George Lenczowski.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-180) and index.

The Ottoman empire: the first break with tradition / Sir Harry Luke -- Mohammed Ali of Egypt: autocratic reformer / A.E. Crouchley -- Afghanistan: concepts of government / Mohamed Khan -- Varieties of Islamic reform / H.A.R. Gibb -- Fundamentalist Islam: the Wahhabis / H. St. John Philby -- Fundamentalist Islam: the Senussis / E.E. Evans-Pritchard -- The Moslem brotherhood / Christina Phelps Harris -- The brotherhood's political theory / Sayed Kotb -- The young Turks / G.L. Lewis -- The committee of union and progress / Sir Harry Luke -- Revolution in Persia / Edward G. Browne -- The birth of Arab nationalism / George Antonius -- Arab-Turkish relations / Zeine N. Zeine -- The struggle for Arab self-determination / Zeine N. Zeine -- Kemalist reform / Lewis V. Thomas and Richard N. Frye -- From imperial to national concept / Mustapha Kemat -- Kemal Ataturk- a portrait / H.C. Armstrong -- The rise of Reza Shah / Amin Banani -- Reza Shah- a portrait / Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi -- Toward a secular state / Khalid M. Khalid -- Arab culture: western or eastern? / Taha Hussein -- Representative system / Mirrit Boutros Ghali -- Nasser's philosophy of the revolution / Gamal Abdul Nasser -- Socialism and unity: the U.A.R. charter -- The Baath: resolutions of the sixth congress -- Revolutionary Polycentrism / Michel Aflak -- The Baath phased program -- Arab unity: tripartite declaration, 1963 -- Arab unity: U.A.R.-Iraq agreement, 1964 -- Arab unity: Nasser's view / Gamal Abdul Nasser -- Iraq: objectives of the revolution -- Official view of organizations under kassem's regime -- "The Eternal Iraqi Republic": Iraq vs. its enemies / Abdul Karim Qassim -- Iraq: the post-Kassem era / Abdul Salam Aref -- Iran's white revolution / Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Aryamehr -- Saudi Arabia: tradition and reform / George Lenczowski -- Saudi Arabia: Faisal ascends to the throne / Shaikh Jamil Hujaylan.