"The new edition of this widely-acclaimed reader brings together key writings on the modern history of the Middle East by some of the best-known specialists in the field. Covering two centuries of change, from 1789 to the present, the selection is carefully designed for students and is the only text of its kind available. It will, in addition, be of great use to all those with a general interest in the Middle East. Already in extensive use in Middle East Studies courses internationally, this revised second edition will be welcomed for the important new contributions that have been added. Book jacket."--Jacket.

The Ottoman 'Ulemā and Westernization in the time of Selīm III and Maḥmūd II / Uriel Heyd -- Turkish attitudes concerning Christian-Muslim equality in the nineteenth century / Roderic H. Davison -- Ottoman reform and the politics of notables / Albert Hourani -- Egypt and Europe : from French expedition to British occupation / Roger Owen -- War and society under the Young Turks, 1908-18 / Feroz Ahmad -- Social change in Persia in the nineteenth century / Ann K.S. Lambton -- Middle East economic development, 1815-1914 : the general and the specific / Charles Issawi -- The origins of private ownership of land in Egypt : a reappraisal / Kenneth M. Cuno -- Decline of the family economy in mid-nineteenth-century Egypt / Judith Tucker -- Ottoman women, households, and textile manufacturing, 1800-1914 / Donald Quataert -- Said Bey : the everyday life of an Istanbul townsman at the beginning of the twentieth century / Paul Dumont -- The crowd in the Persian revolution / Ervand Abrahamian -- Cairo / André Raymond -- Religion and secularism in Turkey / Şerif Mardin -- From Ottomanism to Arabism : the origin of an ideology / C. Ernest Dawn -- 1919 : labor upsurge and national revolution / Joel Beinin, Zachary Lockman -- Syrian urban politics in transition : the quarters of Damascus during the French Mandate / Philip S. Khoury -- The role of the Palestinian peasantry in the Great Revolt (1936-1939) / Ted Swedenburg -- Of the diversity of Iraqis, the incohesiveness of their society, and their progress in the Monarchic Period toward a consolidated political structure / Hanna Batatu -- Israel and the Arab coalition in 1948 / Avi Shlaim -- Dilemmas of the Jewish state / David McDowall -- The strange career of Pan-Arabism / Stephen Humphreys -- Nasser 56/Cairo 96 / Joel Gordon -- Iranian revolutions in comparative perspective / Nikki Keddie -- The crisis of religious legitimacy in Iran / Olivier Roy -- Religion, social structure, and political dissent in Saudi Arabia / Mamoun Fandy.