Modern Middle Eastern History field reading list
Surveys:
1. James L. Gelvin, The Modern Middle East: a History, 3rd Edition (Oxford: OUP, 2011).
2. Donald Quataert, The Ottoman Empire, 1700-1922, 2nd Edition (Cambridge: CUP,
2005).
3. Nikki R. Keddi, Modern Iran: Roots and Results of Revolution, Updated Edition (New
Haven: YUP, 2006).
Anthologies:
4. Edmund Burke, III & David N. Yaghoubian, Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle
East, 2nd Edition (Berkeley: California University Press, 2006).
5. Steven Heydemann, War, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East
6. Albert Hourani, Philip Khoury, and Mary C. Wilson, The Modern Middle East, 2nd
Edition (London: I.B. Tauris, 2005).
7. David W. Lesch, ed. The Middle East and the United States, Fourth Edition (Boulder,
CO: Westview Press, 2007).
Monographs:
8. Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity
9. Julia Clancy-Smith, Mediterraneans: North Africa and Europe in the Age of Migration,
C. 1800-1900 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011).
10. Juan R. I. Cole, Colonialism and Revolution in the Middle East (Egypt: AUC Press,
1999).
11. Selim Deringil, The Well-Protected Domains: Ideology and the Legitimation of Power in
the Ottoman Empire, 1876-1909 (London: I.B. Tauris, 1998).
12. Toby Dodge, Inventing Iraq
13. Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha’s Men: Mehmed Ali, his army and the making of modern
Egypt (Cairo: AUC, 1997).
14. James L. Gelvin, Divided Loyalties: Nationalism and Mass Politics in Syria at the Close
of Empire (Berkeley: California University Press, 1998).
15. Jane Hathaway, The Arab Lands under Ottoman Rule, 1516-1800
16. Samir Khalaf & John Gagnon, Sexuality in the Arab World (London: SAQI, 2006)
17. Arash Khazeni, Tribes and Empire on the Margins of Nineteenth-Century Iran (Seattle:
UW Press, 2009).
18. Reşat Kasaba, Movable Empire
19. Zachary Lockman, Contending Visions of the Middle East, 2nd Edition
20. Ussama Makdisi, The Culture of Sectarianism: Community, History, and Violence in
Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lebanon (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000).
21. Robert Malley, The Call From Algeria: Third Worldism, Revolution, and the Turn to
Islam.
22. Timothy Mitchell, Colonizing Egypt (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988).
23. ______________, Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity
24. Afsaneh Najmabadi, Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and
Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity (Los Angeles: California University Press, 2005).
25. Roger Owen, The Middle East in the World Economy, 1800-1914 (London: IB Tauris,
2009).
26. Şevket Pamuk, The Ottoman Empire and European Capitalism, 1820-1913
27. Eugene L. Rogan, Frontiers of the State in the Late Ottoman Empire (New York: CUP,
1999).
28. Avi Rubin, Ottoman Nizamiye Courts: Law and Modernity
29. Edward Said, Orientalism, 25th Anniversary Edition