A History of the Modern Middle East

List of illustrations -- Preface to the fifth edition -- Acknowledgments -- A note about place names and transliteration -- Part one. The development of Islamic civilization to the eighteenth century: Preface; 1. The rise and expansion of Islam; 2. The development of Islamic civilization to the fifteenth century; 3. The Ottoman and Safavid empires: a new imperial synthesis -- Part two. The beginnings of the era of transformation: Preface; 4. Forging a new synthesis: the pattern of reforms, 1789-1849; 5. The Ottoman Empire and Egypt during the era of the Tanzimat; 6. Egypt and Iran in the late nineteenth century; 7. The response of Islamic society; 8. The era of the young Turks and the Iranian constitutionalists; 9. World War I and the end of the Ottoman Order -- Part three. The struggle for independence: the interwar era to the end of World War II: Preface; 10. Authoritarian reform in Turkey and Iran; 11. The Arab struggle for independence: Egypt, Iraq, and Transjordan from the Interwar Era to 1945; 12. The Arab struggle for independence: Syria, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia from the Interwar Era to 1945; 13. The Palestine Mandate and the birth of the state of Israel.;This definitive history of the modern Middle East includes significant new material covering major transformative developments over the past four years.