Introduction--Albert Hourani *Part I: Reforming Elites and Changing Relations with Europe, 1789-1918* Introduction--Mary C. Wilson * The Ottoman 'Ulema and Westernization in the Time of Selim III and Mahmud 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 *Part II: Transformations in Society & Economy, 1789-1918* Introduction--Mary C. Wilson * 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--Andre Raymond *Part III: The Construction of Nationalist Ideologies and Politics to the 1950s* Introduction--Mary C. Wilson * Religion and Secularism in Turkey--Serif 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 *Part IV: The Middle East Since the Second World War* Introduction--Mary C. Wilson * 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 Preface * Acknowledgements * Note on Presentation * Introduction--Albert Hourani *Part I: Reforming Elites and Changing Relations with Europe, 1789-1918* Introduction--Mary C. Wilson * The Ottoman 'Ulema and Westernization in the Time of Selim III and Mahmud 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 & Society under the Young Turks, 1908-18--Feroz Ahmad * Social Change in Persia in the Nineteenth Century--Ann K.S. Lambton *Part II: Transformations in Society & Economy, 1789-1918* Introduction--Mary C. Wilson * Middle East Economic Development, 1815-1914: the General and the Secific--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--Andre Raymond *Part III: The Construction of Nationalist Ideologies and Politics to the 1950s* Introduction--Mary C. Wilson * Religion and Secularism in Turkey--Serif Mardin * From Ottomanism to Arabism: The Origin of an Ideology--C. Ernest Dawn * 1919: Labor Upsurge and National Revolution--Joel Beinin & Zach.