| Description |
1 online resource (257 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics Series |
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Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics Series
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| Contents |
Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Tables -- Preface -- 1 Winners and Losers in Nation-Building in the Post-Ottoman Middle East -- Young Turks, Social Darwinism, and Oil Politics -- The Turkish Petroleum Company -- Turks, Arabs, and Jews -- Nation-Building: Leadership and Resources -- The Kibbutz Movement -- Technical Knowledge in Nation-Building -- Ideology: Zionism, Turkism, Arabism -- The Dreyfus Case -- Christian Nationalism, the Eastern Question, and the Destruction of the Ottoman Empire |
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The Greek Independence -- The Christian Heritage of Europe -- A Hypothesis -- Neo-Ottomanism -- Failed States in the Arab Core -- References -- 2 Dar'ul Islam After the Ottomans: The Modern Middle East -- The Damascus Debacle -- Antonius On the Sykes-Picot Agreement -- The Ottoman Legacy -- The Ottoman Decline -- Pan-Islam and Neo-Ottomanism -- The Caliphate in the Ottoman Endgame -- Tribalism and Tribal Warfare -- The Endless War in Yemen -- Arab Unity and the Arab League -- Post-Pandemic World -- Human Loss, Quality of Life in the Arab Core -- Social Capital |
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The US Invasion, Rise of Islamic Terrorism, and False Caliphates -- Note -- References -- 3 Recent Scholarship On the End of Ottomans and the Making of the Modern Middle East -- The Berlin-Baghdad Railway (BBR) -- The War Over Oil -- Salvation Through War? -- Deceit and Imperial Folly -- The Ottoman Endgame -- Poisoned Wells -- Oil Kings -- Neo-Imperialism at Its Worst -- The New Arab Wars -- A (Levantine) Paradise Lost -- Nostalgia for an Empire Lost -- References -- 4 The Roots of Islamic Underdevelopment: From Mercantilism to Imperialism -- The Modern Era, 1453 |
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The Ottoman System at Its Zenith -- An Ottoman Traveler: Evliya Çelebi -- The Ottoman Trading System -- Selim's Conquest of Cairo -- The Social Quality of Life Under the Ottomans -- The Damascus-Bursa Trade -- The Ottoman Custom Zones, Taxes, and Slave Trade -- Towns, Guilds, and Trade Regulation: The Imaret System -- Balkans and Arab Provinces Compared -- The Trade Regulation in Ottoman Cairo -- The Arab Core in International Trade -- The Western Shift of International Trade -- Capitulations: The Road to Economic Ruin -- The Creation of the Atlantic Mercantilist Economy |
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The Origins of Mercantilism: Ideas First, Institutions After -- The Plantation System, Slavery as Pillars of Colonialism -- Globalization and MNCs -- References -- 5 The Elusive Quest for the Islamic Social Contract: The Contest Between Nationalism and Imperialism -- A Synopsis of Arab Culture -- The Rise and Fall of Mohammed Mosaddeq -- Saudi Arabia: Wahhabism, Deceit, Oil, and Imperialism -- Iraq: Military Dictatorship and Squandered Oil Wealth -- The Brutal Al-Assad Regime -- The Qaddafi Dictatorship -- The Egyptian Case of Nation-Building -- Notes -- References |
| Summary |
Exploring themes of identity and development in the post-Ottoman Arab world, this book updates the author's earlier Islamic Identity and Development (Routledge, 1990) to analyse the root causes of chaos, civil war, and conflict in the Islamic Core today |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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6 The Making of the Modern Middle East: Western Invasion, the Sykes-Picot Legacy, Failed States, and Terrorism |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000750058 |
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1000750051 |
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