Contents -- List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Maps -- 1. State and society -- Introduction -- 1.1 A provincial treasurer reports, c.1674 -- 1.2 An Armenian account of the Ottoman siege of Erevan, 1724 -- 1.3 Concord and harmony among Ottoman provincial governors: a grand vizier's advice and warning: Abdullah Paşa, 1749 -- 1.4 Negotiating the power of the sultan: the Ottoman Sened-i İttifak (Deed of Agreement), 1808 -- 1.5 Creating new institutions: Clot Bey's organization of Egypt's first modern medical establishment, 1827-1837 -- 1.6 Observing Muhammad [sup(c)]Ali Paşa and his administration at work, 1843-1846 -- 1.7 A manifesto for educational reform in Qajar Iran, 1859 -- 1.8 Discipline in a late Ottoman provincial secondary school, 1903 -- 1.9 An Armenian-Iranian promoted to Amir Tuman of the Persian Cossack Brigade: firman of Mohammad [sup(c)]Ali Shah Qajar, 1908 -- 1.10 Wahhabi [sup(c)]ulama and the state in Saudi Arabia, 1927 -- 1.11 Crime and society in Iran: press and court transcripts, 1934 -- 1.12 A protest of the Jewish women workers of Palestine against the new municipal ordinance which deprives the women of Palestine of their civic rights, 1934 -- 1.13 The rise of mass doctrinal parties: the program of Hasan al-Banna and the Muslim Brotherhood, 1936 -- 1.14 Jamal [sup(c)]Abd al-Nasir (Gamal Abd al-Nasser): from Egypt's Liberation, 1953 -- 1.15 The Program of the Ba[sup(c)]th (Arab Socialist Resurrection) Party, 1963 -- Selected bibliography -- 2. Press, media, and society -- Introduction -- 2.1 'The Statement of Purpose' of an early official gazette in Qajar Iran, 1851 -- 2.2 Nationalist imagery in Egypt's tabloid presses: a drawing from the Egyptian Papagallo, 1904 -- 2.3 'The world of journalism, or the reasons for the establishment of the newspaper To'jjor', 1907.

2.4 The aftermath of revolution in the Ottoman cartoon space, 1909-1910 -- 2.5 Seruan Azhar: a paper published by Southeast Asian students in Cairo, 1925 -- 2.6 Journalism in Egypt in the 1920s and 1930s: from The Education of Salama Musa, 1947 -- 2.7 Cartoon from the satirical Turkish weekly comic LeMan entitled 'Sözde Mini Öykü . . .' ('A So-Called Short Story'), 27 January 2001 -- 2.8 From the Internet magazine, The Iranian, 25 January 2002: a debate on the legacy of the Persepolis celebrations of 1971 -- Selected bibliography -- 3. Gender and society -- Introduction -- 3.1 A view of Indian Muslim womanhood from Hali's Majalis un-Nissa, 1874 -- 3.2 'Should a woman demand all the rights of a man?' From the Cairo periodical, Al-Hilal, 1894 -- 3.3 Two Ottoman officials on gender and class in early twentieth-century Nablus, 1916 -- 3.4 Excerpts from Antun al-Gamayyil's textbook, Al-Fatat wa'l-Bayt ('The Young Woman and the Home'), 1916 -- 3.5 The Turkish 'Modern Woman': two press articles, 1924 and 1926 -- 3.6 Gender, morality, and state policy in modern Iran: a Ministry of Education memorandum, 1935 -- 3.7 Interview of a deputation of the Arab Women's Committee in Jerusalem at Government House on Thursday, 24 March 1938 -- 3.8 Two views of women fighters during the Algerian War of National Liberation, 1957 -- Selected bibliography -- 4. Religion and society -- Introduction -- 4.1 An intellectual biography of a religious scholar in Ottoman Damascus: from Isma[sup(c)]il al-Ajluni's 'The Finest and Most Perfect of Men who are Connected by Chains of Transmission to all other Fine Men', 1737 -- 4.2 Three letters from Imam Shamil to his followers, 1834-1858 -- 4.3 Kemal Atatürk on the abolition of the Ottoman caliphate, 3 March 1924 -- 4.4 An appeal from the Iraq Minorities (non-Muslim) Rescue Committee, 1931.

4.5 From the Javid-namaeh of Muhammad Iqbal, 1932 -- 4.6 Reporting the news with an Islamic revivalist twist: excerpts from The Banner of Islam, 1946 -- 4.7 The Committee for Public Morality in Saudi Arabia, 1957 -- 4.8 Twelver Shi[sup(c)]ism and revolutionary Islam in Iran: from [sup(c)]Ali Shari[sup(c)]ati's, Approaches to the Understanding of Islam, 1968 -- 4.9 Israel at fifty: the cultural war in the pages of Ha'aretz and the Jerusalem Post, 1998 -- 4.10 Osama bin Laden's use of history: an audiotape released in early 2004 -- Selected bibliography -- 5. Modern identities -- Introduction -- 5.1 On justice towards peasants: from Rifa[sup(c)]a Rafi[sup(c)] al-Tahtawi's Paths of Egyptian Minds in the Delights of Modern Culture, 1869 -- 5.2 An official report on efforts to re-establish Ottoman control over Kuwait, 1870 -- 5.3 Nationalism, Ottomanism, pluralism, humanism: extracts from the Sufi writing of Abu'l-Huda al-Sayyadi, 1903 -- 5.4 Excerpts from Üç Tarz-i Siyaset ('Three Kinds of Politics') by Akçuraoglu Yusuf, 1904 -- 5.5 Pan-Asianism in the late Ottoman Empire, 1905-1912 -- 5.6 Armenian and Iranian collaboration in the constitutional revolution: the agreement between Dashnakists and Majlis delegates, 1908 -- 5.7 Excerpts from Ahmet Agaoglu's The Turkish World, 1912-1913 -- 5.8 Separdic Zionism in the Ottoman Empire: 'The Time is Here', Ha-Herut, 1 April 1914 -- 5.9 Interview with Boubeddi Ben Ayyad, a Moroccan World War II veteran of the French Army, 1999 -- 5.10 Iran and the National Front, a speech by Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq, 27 September 1951 -- 5.11 Anwar al-Sadat's speech to the Israeli Knesset, 1977 -- Selected bibliography -- 6. Views of the world -- Introduction -- 6.1 Letters from Nader Shah to the Ottoman Court, 1736 -- 6.2 Ottoman-Iranian marriage and the Ottoman legal code, 1822-1926.

6.3 The journals of an Ottoman student in England, July 1829 to January 1830 -- 6.4 The young Ottoman: Namik Kemal's 'Progress', 1872 -- 6.5 The West through the eyes of an Iranian Qajar monarch: Naser al-Din Shah's first trip to Europe, 1873 -- 6.6 The battle for British public opinion on Turkey and the Eastern Question: two documents, 1876 and 1904 -- 6.7 Ismail Gaspirali and Tatar emigration from Russia to the Ottoman Empire, 1902-1903 -- 6.8 Conceptualizing modernity in late Ottoman times: Japan as a model nation, 1902-1913 -- 6.9 The Ottoman home front, a German correspondent's remarks, 1917 -- 6.10 Muslim state participation in UN human rights debates, 1946-1966 -- 6.11 The Lebanese community of Dearborn, Michigan, 1975-2000 -- Selected bibliography -- 7. Redefining tradition -- Introduction -- 7.1 A late Ottoman style of architectural poetry: Tevarih-i manzume, 1796 -- 7.2 Imams in the reformed army of Mahmud II: uniform regulations from Ottoman military archives, c.1827 -- 7.3 Science in religious education: a fatwa from Cairo, 1888 -- 7.4 A memorial to a young Assyrian refugee, 1922 -- 7.5 The Brigadier and the Imam: two commemorative poems from Iran, 1928 and 1989 -- 7.6 Three poems on British involvement in Yemen, from the Yemeni press, 1937 -- 7.7 Taha Husayn: revolt against tradition, from Al-Ayyam (The Days), 1939 -- Selected bibliography -- 8. Economic change -- Part 1: Economic data -- Introduction -- Statistical tables and comments -- Selected bibliography -- Part 2: The cultural impact of economic change -- Introduction -- 8.1 The barber of Damascus: Ahmad Budayri al-Hallaq's chronicle of the year 1749 -- 8.2 Six Ottoman documents on the power of guilds in the Balkans, 1760s -- 8.3 Economic change: Muhammad [sup(c)]Ali's development schemes in Egypt and Syria, 1834 and 1837.

8.4 Financial imperialism and its relationship to development -- the Ottoman Public Debt Administration, 1881-1925 -- 8.5 Development concessions, the D'Arcy Concession for Iranian oil, 29 May 1901 -- 8.6 Memento of a life, by Haj Mohammad Hosayn Amin al-Zarb II, 1928 -- 8.7 The population as a national economic resource: an Iranian press article, 1937 -- 8.8 Diplomatic and court perspectives on the 'White Revolution' in Iran, 1958-1971 -- Selected bibliography -- Glossary -- A -- B -- I -- J -- M -- P -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Y -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.