The First World War and Its Aftermath : The Shaping of the Middle East.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: the political transformation of the Middle East 1914-1923 / T.G. Fraser -- 1. The rise of Egyptian nationalism and the perception of foreigners in Egypt 1914-1923 / Amany Soliman -- 2. The antecedents and implications of the so-called Anglo-Sanussi War 1915-1917 / Jason Pack -- 3. British intelligence and Arab nationalism: the origins of the modern Middle East / Steven Wagner -- 4. The First World War and its legacy for women in Iraq / Noga Efrati -- 5. From anti-imperial dissent to national consent: the First World War and the formation of a trans-sectarian national consciousness in Lebanon / Mark Farha -- 6. Historicising hunger: the famine in wartime Lebanon and Syria / Najwa al-Qattan -- 7. The patriarch, the amir and the patriots: civilisation and self determination at the Paris Peace Conference / Andrew Arsan -- 8. A thoroughly modern Caliphate: could legitimate governance for the Middle East in the aftermath of the First World War have been found by looking within? / Louise Pyne-Jones -- 9. From the Archduke to the Caliph: the Islamist evolution that led to 'The Islamic State' / Aaron Y. Zelin -- 10. Some reflections on whether the Mandates were a slow burning fuse for toxic sectarianism in Arab countries / John Mchugo -- 11. Oil, state and society in Iran in the aftermath of the First World War / Kaveh Ehsani -- 12. The new Arab intellectuals of the post-First World War period: the case of Taha Husayn / Bruno Ronfard -- 13. A tale of two nationalists: parallelisms in the writings of Ziya Gökalp and Michel Aflaq / Michael Erdman -- 14. Women, war and the foundations of the Turkish Republic: the vision of New Womanhood in Halide Edib Adıvar's The Shirt of Flame (1922) / Sevinç Elaman-Garner.

15. The limits of soft power: why Kurdish nationalism failed in the French Mandate of Syria / Laila McQuade and Nabil Al-Tikriti -- 16. The other jihad: Enver Pasha, Bolsheviks, and politics of anticolonial Muslim nationalism during the Baku Congress 1920 / Alp Yenen -- 17. A point of order: a battle for autonomy in the First Legislative Council of Transjordan / Harrison Guthorn -- 18. Drawing the line: Calouste Gulbenkian and the Red Line Agreement of 1928 / Jonathan Conlin -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Index.

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