Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The rise of Islam and the Arab conquests
- 2 The Ottoman empire to 1566
- 3 The Middle East and North Africa on the eve of the First World War
- 4 The Middle East and North Africa between the Two World Wars
- 5 The Middle East and North Africa – boundaries
- 6 The Middle East and North Africa in the world
- Introduction
- 1 In the beginning
- 2 Islam, the West and the rest
- 3 Orientalism and empire
- 4 The American century
- 5 Turmoil in the field
- 6 Said's Orientalism: a book and its aftermath
- 7 After Orientalism?
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
1 - The rise of Islam and the Arab conquests
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The rise of Islam and the Arab conquests
- 2 The Ottoman empire to 1566
- 3 The Middle East and North Africa on the eve of the First World War
- 4 The Middle East and North Africa between the Two World Wars
- 5 The Middle East and North Africa – boundaries
- 6 The Middle East and North Africa in the world
- Introduction
- 1 In the beginning
- 2 Islam, the West and the rest
- 3 Orientalism and empire
- 4 The American century
- 5 Turmoil in the field
- 6 Said's Orientalism: a book and its aftermath
- 7 After Orientalism?
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Contending Visions of the Middle EastThe History and Politics of Orientalism, pp. x - xiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004