Beginnings of modernization in the Middle East : the nineteenth century / Edited by William R. Polk and Richard L. Chambers.

Held under the auspices of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Some aspects of the aims and achievements of the nineteenth-century Ottoman reformers / Stanford Jay Shaw -- Ottoman reform and the politics of notables / Albert Hourani -- The land regime, social structure, and modernization in the Ottoman empire / Kemal H. Karpat -- The advent of the principle of representation in the government of the Ottoman empire / Roderic H. Davison -- The impact of nationalism on the Turkish elite in the nineteenth century / Ercümend Kuran -- The forces of modernization in nineteenth-century Iran : a historical survey / Hafez Farman Farmayan -- Urbanization in Egypt, 1820-1907 / Gabriel Baer -- The situation of Egyptian women in the first half of the nineteenth century / Nada Tomiche -- The 1860 upheaval in Damascus as seen by al-Sayyid Muhammad Abu'l-Su'ud al-Hasibi, notable and later Naqib al-Ashraf of the city / Kamal S. Salibi -- Western development and eastern crisis in the mid-nineteenth century : Syria confronted with the European economy / Dominique Chevallier ---

The establishment of the colonial economy / Jacques Berque -- Stratford Canning and the Tanzimat / Allan Cunningham -- The beginnings of modernization among the rectors of al-Azhar, 1798-1879 / Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot -- National education projects in Egypt before the British occupation / Fritz Steppat -- The beginnings of modernization in education : the Jewish community in Egypt as a case study / Jacob M. Landau -- Notes on the Mekteb-i Osmanî in Paris, 1857-1874 / Richard L. Chambers -- The impact of modernization on Syrian politics and society during the early Tanzimat period / Moshe Ma'oz -- The modernization of Syria : problems and solutions in the early period of Abdülhamid / Shimon Shamir -- Asymmetrical development and transport in Egypt, 1800-1914 / Charles Issawi -- Modernization and reaction in the nineteenth-century Sudan / P.M. Holt.t.