The Middle East and Islamic World Reader An Historical Reader for the 21st Century
by Gettleman, Marvin E.; Schaar, StuartEdition: Revised
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Pub. Date: 2012-05-15
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Summary
A fascinating, broad-ranging survey of the rich history and culture of the Muslim world, featuring primary documents from the era of Muhammad to the present, newly revised and expanded to include recent dramatic events.
Author Biography
Marum E. Gettleman is the coeditor of the best-selling anthology Vietnam and America. He is professor emeritus of history at Brooklyn Polytechnic University. Stuart Schaar is professor emeritus of history at Brooklyn College, City University of New York.
Table of Contents
| General Introduction | p. 1 |
| Islamic Beginnings: Revelation, State Building, and Culture | |
| Introduction | p. 5 |
| The Quran and Other Islamic Texts | p. 12 |
| Shiite and Sunni Views on Political Legitimacy | p. 21 |
| Abd al-Hassan Ali al-Mawardi, On Choosing a Caliph | p. 22 |
| Allama al-Hilli on the Shiite Imamate | p. 24 |
| Abu Ali al-Husayn ibn Sina [Avicenna], The Ideal Muslim Intellectual | p. 26 |
| Rabia al-Adawiyya al-Qaysiyya, A Woman's Voice in Sufi Poetry | p. 29 |
| Abu al-Rayhum Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni, A Muslim Scholar Examines Hinduism | p. 31 |
| From the Coming of Steppe Peoples to the Age of Gunpowder Empires | |
| Introduction | p. 37 |
| Disasters Strike the Muslim World | p. 46 |
| Usamah ibn Munquidh, An Arab Perspective on the Crusades | p. 46 |
| Rashid al-Din Fazlullah, The Mongol Conquest of Baghdad | p. 48 |
| Ahmad al-Maqrizi, The Bubonic Plague in Syria and Egypt | p. 51 |
| Abd al-Rahman ibn Khaldun, Effective Rule and Dynastic Cycles | p. 54 |
| Shah Abbas and Emperor Jahangir Debate the Persian Conquest of Kandahar | p. 58 |
| Suraiya Faroqhi, Ottoman Women's Lives | p. 62 |
| Contradictions of Modernity: Imperialism and Social Change | |
| Introduction | p. 69 |
| Decrees from the Ottoman Tanzimat | p. 80 |
| The Gulhane Proclamation | p. 81 |
| An Ottoman "Bill of Rights" | p. 82 |
| Social and Economic Change in the Ottoman Empire | p. 84 |
| Suraiya Faroqhi, Ottoman Peasants | p. 85 |
| Hanna Batatu, Political Centralization in Iraq and Kurdistan | p. 88 |
| Donald Quataert, Manufacturing Workshops | p. 92 |
| Alexander Scholch, European Trade with Palestine | p. 95 |
| Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, Plan for Islamic Union | p. 97 |
| The Two World Wars and their Aftermaths | |
| Introduction | p. 103 |
| Conflicting Promises During World War I | p. 113 |
| Sharif Husayn ibn Ali, Desire for Arab Independence | p. 113 |
| Sir Henry McMahon, Qualifying British Pledges | p. 115 |
| The Sykes-Picot Agreement on Dividing up Arab Lands | p. 116 |
| Vahakn N. Dadrian, The Fate of the Armenians in World War I | p. 119 |
| Challenges to New Nations: Afghanistan, Turkey, and the Fertile Crescent | p. 122 |
| Queen Soraya, The Liberation of Afghan Women | p. 123 |
| Mustafa Kemal, Design for a Modern Secular Turkish State | p. 125 |
| Halidé Edib [Adivar], Dictatorship and Reform in Turkey | p. 127 |
| Michel Aflaq, Purifying the National Ideal: Baath Ideology | p. 132 |
| Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Divide India; Create Pakistan | p. 135 |
| Peter J. Sluglett and Marion Farouk-Sluglett, Divide and Rule in British-Controlled Iraq | p. 138 |
| Arabs and Zionists Struggle Over Palestine | |
| Introduction | p. 147 |
| Zionism and its Early Arab Opponents | p. 165 |
| Theodor Herzl, Zionism: The Vision of an Eventual Jewish State | p. 165 |
| Rashid Rida, Pay Attention to Zionist Encroachment | p. 168 |
| "Tiberias," Warning of Zionist Colonization | p. 169 |
| The Balfour Declaration and the Mandate Period | p. 170 |
| The Balfour Declaration: AJewish Home in Palestine | p. 170 |
| The General Syrian Congress, Our Objections to Zionism and Western Imperialism | p. 171 |
| James Ramsay MacDonald, Letter to Chaim Weizmann | p. 173 |
| Vladimir Jabotinsky, Let Us Settle Palestine and Transjordan | p. 174 |
| Palestine on Eve of World War II | p. 176 |
| Ted Swedenburg, The Palestinian Revolt, 1936-39 | p. 177 |
| The Arab Response to the Proposed Partition of Palestine | p. 182 |
| The British Government's White Paper on Palestine | p. 184 |
| The Biltmore Program | p. 186 |
| The Creation of the State of Israel | p. 188 |
| UN General Assembly, the Partition Plan: Resolution #181 | p. 189 |
| UN General Assembly, Palestinian Right of Return: Resolution #194 | p. 191 |
| The Israeli Knesset, The Law of Return | p. 192 |
| Arab Assertions: Out of Despair Revived Nationalism | p. 193 |
| Nizar Qabbani, The Catastrophe of Arab Defeat | p. 194 |
| Palestinian National Council, The National Charter | p. 198 |
| Reaching for Peace: United Nations Security Council Resolutions | p. 201 |
| UN Resolution #242: Withdrawal from Occupied Territory | p. 201 |
| UN Resolution #338: End the Fighting | p. 203 |
| Transformation of Palestinian Politics | p. 203 |
| Yasir Arafat, We Recognize Israel | p. 204 |
| Hanan Mikhail-Ashrawi, The Meaning of the Intifada | p. 205 |
| Charter of the Islamic Resistance Movement of Palestine (Hamas) | p. 207 |
| The Peace Process | p. 211 |
| Principles of a Peace Agreement-Oslo, Norway | p. 212 |
| Yitzhak Rabin, The Price of Occupation | p. 214 |
| The Taba Negotiations | p. 215 |
| Impasse and New Intifada | p. 221 |
| King Husayn I of Jordan, Eulogy of Yitzhak Rabin | p. 221 |
| Ariel Sharon, Program for Dealing with the Palestinians | p. 222 |
| Marwan Barghouti, Grassroots Leadership and the Second Intifada | p. 225 |
| The Arab League, Ratification of the Peace Plan Proposed by Crown Prince Abdullah ibn Abd al-Aziz of Saudi Arabia | p. 228 |
| Palestinian Intellectuals' Urgent Appeal to Stop Suicide Bombings | p. 230 |
| George W. Bush, A New and Different Palestinian Leadership | p. 232 |
| Geopolitics of Oil and the Cold War Conflict | |
| Introduction | p. 237 |
| U.S. Presidential Policies, 1947-2002 | p. 244 |
| The Truman Doctrine | p. 245 |
| The Eisenhower Doctrine | p. 247 |
| George H. W. Bush, The New World Order | p. 248 |
| William J. Clinton, The Battle Against. Terrorism | p. 250 |
| George W. Bush, Beyond Containment and Deterrence to Preemptive Action | p. 251 |
| Intervention and Revolution in Iran | p. 253 |
| Muhammad Mossadeq, Nationalizing Iranian Oil | p. 254 |
| Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini, Iran in Imperialism's Clutches | p. 255 |
| Ervand Abrahamian, Democracy or Theocracy: Iran's Islamic Republic | p. 257 |
| OPEC and the World Economy | p. 262 |
| Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries: Getting Our Share | p. 262 |
| Crown Prince Fahd ibn Abd al-Aziz, Oil and the World Economy | p. 263 |
| Wars at the End of the Twentieth Century and the Beginning of the Twenty-First | p. 266 |
| Joe Stork, The First Gulf War: Iran vs. Iraq, 1980-88 | p. 266 |
| The United Nations and the Second Gulf War: Security Council Resolution #687 | p. 269 |
| George H.W. Bush, The Second Gulf War and Kicking the Vietnam Syndrome | p. 271 |
| Zbigniew Brzezinski, "Some Stirred-up Muslims": Reflections on Soviet Intervention in Afghanistan | p. 273 |
| Ideologies, Movements, and Social Trends | |
| Introduction | p. 277 |
| Egypt and Lebanon: Secularism and Confessionalism | p. 288 |
| Jamal Abd al-Nasser, Arab Socialism | p. 289 |
| Anwar Sadat, Infitah: Opening to the West | p. 291 |
| The Taif Agreement: Syrian Influence over Lebanon | p. 293 |
| Early Ideologues of Islamic Radicalism | p. 296 |
| Taqi al-Din Ahmad ibn Taimiyya, Against Heretical Innovation | p. 297 |
| Hasan al-Banna, Overcome Western Materialism | p. 300 |
| Sayyid Qutb, Corruptions of the Modern World | p. 303 |
| Modern Islamic Radicalism | p. 306 |
| Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Egypt's Islamic Militants | p. 307 |
| Taliban Decrees about Women, Men's Beards, Children's Games and Music | p. 310 |
| 9/11: Terrorism and Wars; Arab Citizens' Revolt | |
| Introduction | p. 317 |
| The Threat of Osama bin Laden and American Responses | p. 325 |
| Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders: The 1998 Fatwa | p. 326 |
| George W. Bush, Hand Over Terrorists or Share Their Fate | p. 328 |
| Congresswoman Barbara Lee, No Blank Check to President Bush | p. 330 |
| The Policy Debate | p. 332 |
| George W. Bush, Battling the Axis of Evil | p. 332 |
| Brent Scowcroft, Don't Attack Saddam | p. 335 |
| President Obama's Vision for New Beginnings in the Middle East: Cairo University, Egypt, June 4, 2009 | p. 337 |
| WikiLeaks | p. 344 |
| Saudi Royal Wealth: Where Do They Get All That Money? | p. 346 |
| Corruption in Tunisia: What's Yours Is Mine | p. 344 |
| Egypt Seen from the Inside | p. 349 |
| The Arab Citizens' Revolt | p. 353 |
| Stuart Schaar, Arab Dictatorships Under Fire in the New Information Age | p. 353 |
| Paul Amar, Why Mubarack Is Out | p. 357 |
| The Historical Context: The West and Islam | p. 363 |
| Bernard Lewis, The Clash of Civilizations | p. 363 |
| Edward W. Said, The Clash of Ignorance | p. 367 |
| Stuart Schaar, Orientalism's Persistence in Mass Culture and Foreign Policy | p. 372 |
| Epilogue | p. 377 |
| Glossary | p. 383 |
| Select Bibliography | p. 391 |
| Index | p. 399 |
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