Efnisyfirlit

• Cover
• Copyright
• Title Page
• Contents
• Boxes
• Illustrations
• Maps
• Preface
• Prologue. Islam and the Prophet’s Successors
• 1. Birth of Empires: The Ottoman and Safavid Empires through the 18th Century
• 2. Reform and Rebellion: The Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and Qajar Iran in the 19th Century
• 3. Social Transformations: Workers and Nationalists in Egypt, Mount Lebanon, and the Ottoman Empire in the 19th Century
• 4. The Great War: Qajar Iran and the Ottoman Empire from Revolution to World War I
• 5. State Formation and Colonial Control: Turkey, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Transjordan, and Saudi Arabia in the 1920s and 1930s
• 6. Rebels and Rogues: Egypt, Iraq, Transjordan, Palestine, and Israel in the Interwar Years
• 7. Military Coups: Politics and Violence. Iran, Turkey, and the Arab States, 1952–1980
• 8. Cold War Battles: The Suez Crisis, Arab-Israeli Conflicts, and the Lebanese Civil War
• 9. Rulers for Life: State Construction, Consolidation, and Collapse
• 10. Upheaval: Islamism, Invasion, and Rebellion from the 1990s into the 21st Century
• Epilogue. Revolution, Reaction, and Civil War
• Note on Transliteration
• Acknowledgments
• Bibliography
• Index