Struggle For Domination In The Middle East

Author : Shai Har-El
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9004101802

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Struggle for Domination in the Middle East by Shai Har-El Pdf

This two-part volume offers a comprehensive account of the conflict between the Ottoman and Mamluk Empires. Part One explores Ottoman-Mamluk relations from their inception in the middle of the fourteenth century to the laying of the foundations of the conflict in the second half of the fifteenth century. Part Two offers a detailed description of the actual war of 1485-91, and analyzes it from various angles including military, economic, and diplomatic. Based largely on Ottoman, Mamluk and Italian primary sources - documentary and narrative - the volume helps to understand the second and final war between the Ottomans and Mamluks in 1516-17, which resulted in the downfall of the Mamluk Empire and the firm establishment of Ottoman power in the Middle East.

Author : Har-El
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789004660861

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Struggle for Domination in the Middle East by Har-El Pdf

This original study of pre-modern Middle East history, provides fascinating new information about the conflict relations between the two great Muslim empires, the Ottomans and the Mamluks, and military confrontations between Eastern medieval armies.

Author : James Barr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 154161741X

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Lords of the Desert by James Barr Pdf

"Within a single generation, between 1945 and 1970, America replaced Britain as the dominant power in the Middle East. By any standard, it was an extraordinary role reversal and it was one that came with very little warning. Starting in the nineteenth century, Britain had first established themselves as protector of the sheikhdoms along the southern shore of the Persian Gulf, before acquiring Aden, Cyprus and then Egypt and the Sudan. In the Great War in the twentieth century they then added Palestine, Jordan and Iraq by conquest. And finally Britain had jointly run Iran with the Soviets since 1941 to defeat Hitler. The discovery of vast oil reserves in Saudi Arabia, at a time when the United States' own domestic reserves seemed to be running low, made America's initial interest commercial. But trade required political stability. Its absence led the United States to look more critically at the conduct of her major ally in the region. Added to this theatre of operations, the Zionists in Israel after World War One actively pursued a policy to establish and win an independent state for the Jews - which spurred on by thousands of Jewish refugees from war-torn Europe enabled them to build up the forces necessary to achieve power. How would Britain manage both Arab and Jewish positions and still maintain power? In 1943 they came up with an ambitious plan do so, and in 1944 put it into action.Somewhere East of Suez tells this story."--Publisher's description.

Author : Efraim Karsh,Inari Karsh
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2001-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674254763

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Empires of the Sand by Efraim Karsh,Inari Karsh Pdf

Empires of the Sand offers a bold and comprehensive reinterpretation of the struggle for mastery in the Middle East during the long nineteenth century (1789-1923). This book denies primacy to Western imperialism in the restructuring of the region and attributes equal responsibility to regional powers. Rejecting the view of modern Middle Eastern history as an offshoot of global power politics, the authors argue that the main impetus for the developments of this momentous period came from the local actors. Ottoman and Western imperial powers alike are implicated in a delicate balancing act of manipulation and intrigue in which they sought to exploit regional and world affairs to their greatest advantage. Backed by a wealth of archival sources, the authors refute the standard belief that Europe was responsible for the destruction of the Ottoman Empire and the region's political unity. Instead, they show how the Hashemites played a decisive role in shaping present Middle Eastern boundaries and in hastening the collapse of Ottoman rule. Similarly, local states and regimes had few qualms about seeking support and protection from the "infidel" powers they had vilified whenever their interests so required. Karsh and Karsh see a pattern of pragmatic cooperation and conflict between the Middle East and the West during the past two centuries, rather than a "clash of civilizations." Such a vision affords daringly new ways of viewing the Middle East's past as well as its volatile present.

Author : Rashid Khalidi
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0807003107

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Sowing Crisis by Rashid Khalidi Pdf

From "the foremost U.S. historian of the modern Middle East" ("L.A. Times") comes a powerful argument that the global conflicts now playing out explosively in the Middle East were significantly shaped by the Cold War era.

Author : Patrick Seale
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520066677

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Asad of Syria by Patrick Seale Pdf

"This is a book in the finest tradition of investigative scholarship. The research is awesome. . . . Seale’s great strength is his ability to explain the confusing kaleidoscopic nature of Middle Eastern diplomacy. He understands the game being played and also knows the players. . . . [An] impressive book.”--Los Angeles Times Book Review

Author : Adnan Khan
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781365448195

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100 Years of the Middle East: The Struggle for the Post Sykes-Picot Middle East by Adnan Khan Pdf

Author : R. Stephen Humphreys
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0520932587

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Between Memory and Desire by R. Stephen Humphreys Pdf

Middle Easterners today struggle to find solutions to crises of economic stagnation, political gridlock, and cultural identity. In recent decades Islam has become central to this struggle, and almost every issue involves fierce, sometimes violent debates over the role of religion in public life. In this post-9/11 updated edition R. Stephen Humphreys presents a thoughtful analysis of Islam's place in today's Middle East and integrates the medieval and modern history of the region to show how the sacred and secular are tightly interwoven in its political and intellectual life.

Author : Ilan Pappé
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0415214092

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The Modern Middle East by Ilan Pappé Pdf

The Gulf states. Two introductory chapters on political and economic history set the broader context. The main text focuses on the experience of everyday people from Ottoman and colonial times through the present. Rural and urban history, popular culture, music, literature, theatre and other media, women, and the many faces of Islam are the chapter topics. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Author : Raymond Hinnebusch
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2003-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0719053463

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The International Politics of the Middle East by Raymond Hinnebusch Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Middle East international politics in the light of international relations theory. It assesses the impact of international penetration, including the historic formation of the regional state system, the continued role of external great powers, and the incorporation of the region into the international capitalist market. It examines the region’s distinctive dialect between trans-state identities, Arabism and Islam, and the consolidation of a sovereign state system. It looks at the consequences of state formation for the ability of state elites to manage the external and domestic arenas in which they must operate; and it analyzes the impact of the foreign policy process in individual states.

Author : Jamie Allinson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857728692

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The Struggle for the State in Jordan by Jamie Allinson Pdf

Why do the states of the Arab world seem so unstable? Why do alliances between them and with outside powers change so suddenly? Jamie Allinson argues that the answer lies in the expansion of global capitalism in the Middle East. Drawing out the unexpected way in which Jordan's Bedouin tribes became allied to the British Empire in the twentieth Century , and the legacy of this for the British Empire in the twentieth century, and the legacy of this for the international politics of the Middle East, he challenges the existing views of the region. Using the example of Jordan, this book traces the social bases of the struggles that produces the country's foreign relations in the latter half of the twentieth century to the reforms carried out under the Ottoman Empire and the processes of Land settlement and state formation experiences under the British Mandate. By examining the attempts of Jordan to create foreign alliances during a time of upheaval and instability in the region, Allinson offers wider conclusions the nature of interaction between state and society in the Middle East

Author : Bernard Lewis
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780817912963

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The End of Modern History in the Middle East by Bernard Lewis Pdf

Bernard Lewis looks at the new era in the Middle East. With the departure of imperial powers, the region must now, on its own, resolve the political, economic, cultural, and societal problems that prevent it from accomplishing the next stage in the advance of civilization. There is enough in the traditional culture of Islam on the one hand and the modern experience of the Muslim peoples on the other, he explains, to provide the basis for an advance toward freedom in the true sense of that word.

Author : Patrick Seale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Lebanon
ISBN : OCLC:1392036109

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The Struggle for Arab Independence by Patrick Seale Pdf

Author : Edmund Burke
Publisher : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1992-12-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1850436053

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Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle East by Edmund Burke Pdf

By assembling the biographies of 24 ordinary Middle Eastern men and women - peasants, villagers, pastoralists, and urbanites - this book provides a series of vantage points from which to consider how Middle Eastern history might seem from the bottom up.

Author : Zeine N. Zeine
Publisher : Academic Resources Corp
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : France
ISBN : UCAL:$B675372

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The Struggle for Arab Independence by Zeine N. Zeine Pdf