The Arab World: An Illustrated History - Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

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Preface

  1. The Arabs in Antiquity
    1. Origins in the Ancient Near East
    2. The Peoples of South-Central Arabia
    3. The Arabs of Northern Arabia and Syria
    4. Arabia and Ancient World Order
    5. Arabian Social and Cultural Patterns before Islam
  2. The Rise of Islam (A.D. 610-661)
    1. Muhammad, Prophet of Islam
    2. Abu Bakr – Succession and Consolidation of the Umma
    3. The Conquests
    4. The Organization and Administration of the Early Caliphate
    5. Uthman, Ali and the Crisis of Legitimacy
  3. From Arab Empire to Islamic Caliphate: The Umayyads and the Abbasids (661-945)
    1. The Umayyads and the Rule of the Arab Aristocracy
    2. The Abbasids and the “Golden Age” of Islam
  4. Islam, Law & the State
    1. The Islamic Concept of the State
    2. The “Heirs of the Prophet”
    3. The Essentials of Islamic Law
  5. The Arab West: North Africa, Sicily & Spain
    1. The Conquest and Arabization of the West
    2. Arab Sicily
    3. Islamic Spain – The Splendor of Al-Andalus
    4. The Almoravids, the Almohads, La Reconquista and 1492
  6. Arab Sunset, Turkish Dawn: The Struggle for International Islam (945-1517)
    1. The Buyids: The Reawakening of Persia
    2. The Fatimids: The Shia Counter-Caliphate
    3. The Seljuks and the Rise of the Turkic Military Class
    4. The Latin States, the Zengids and the Ayyubids
    5. The Mongels, the Mamluks and the Abbasids’ Last Stand
  7. Society, Culture & the Life of the Mind (661-1517)
    1. The Development of Arab Societies
    2. Development of the Sciences
    3. The Way of the Mystics
    4. Philosophy and Metaphysics
    5. Language and Literature
  8. The Ottoman Age (1517-1798)
    1. The World of the Ottoman Empire
    2. Arab Societies During the Ottoman Age
    3. Morocco and Arabia: Arabs outside the Empire
    4. The Decline of the House of Osman
  9. Sick Man of the Middle East: The Arab World in the Age of Ottoman Decline and European Ascendance (1798-1920)
    1. An Egyptian Saga
    2. Curing the Sick or Raising the Dead? Islamic Revivalism and the Tanzimat Era
    3. The Struggle for Arabia to 1914
    4. Zionism and the Seeds of Arab Nationalism (1881-1914)
    5. The Great War and the Creation of the Modern Arab State System (1914-1922)
  10. The Hope of Revival: Arab Nationalism, Secularism & Socialism (c. 1920-1950)
    1. The Mandate System
    2. The Struggle for Palestine (1920-1947)
    3. The Triumph of Ibn Sa’ud
    4. Islamic Revivalism and the Golden Age of Arab Nationalism
  11. Hopes Betrayed: The Contemporary World
    1. The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (1947-1990)
    2. Development and Stagnation: Contemporary Socio-Economic Issues
    3. The Islamic Resurgence and the Islamist-Secularist Struggle for Power
    4. War and Peace from 1990 to the Present
  12. Conclusion: Reflections, Present & Future
    1. Prospects for Democracy and Prosperity in the Arab World
    2. War and Peace in the Middle East
    3. The United States in the Arab World

Glossary of Arabic Terms

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