GREAT BRITAIN, GERMANY AND THE OTTOMAN CALIPHATE

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface 3
3. TABLE OF CONTENTS 5
4. INTRODUCTION 7
5. REFORMED OTTOMANISM AND SOCIAL CHANGE 9
6. AWAKENING INTEREST IN WESTERN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY IN OTTOMAN SYRIA 19
7. SYRO-EGYPT1ANS AND THE LITERARY REVIVAL MOVEMENT 29
8. THE ROLE OF THE SYRO-EGYPTIANS IN THE CULTURAL RENAISSANCE 37
9. CENSORSHIP AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IN OTTOMAN SYRIA AND EGYPT 51
10. CHRISTIAN COMMUNITIES IN THE ARAB WORLD: MAJORITY-MINORITY RELATIONS 77
11. RELIGION, ETHNICITY AND CONFLICT IN THE SYRIAN REGION 85
12. THE IMPACT OF THE WEST ON THE CONFLICT OF IDEOLOGIES IN THE ARAB WORLD 97
13. THE DILEMMA OF ARAB NATIONALISM 109
14. EMIR BASHIR II'S FISCAL POLICIES FOR MT. LEBANON IN 1837 : A SOCIO-ECONOMIC INVESTIGATION 125
15. THE LEBANESE INSURGENCE OF 1840 AND THE POWERS 137
16. THE QUADRUPLE ALLIANCE AND PROPOSED OTTOMAN REFORMS IN SYRIA, 1839-1841 155
17. NECİP PAŞA AND THE BRITISH IN SYRIA 1841-1842 183
18. AUSTRIAN DIPLOMACY AND THE MT. LEBANON CRISIS IN THE AGE OF METTERNICH 211
19. PROTESTANTISM AND BRITISH DIPLOMACY IN SYRIA 223
20. A TALE OF TWO MISSIONS 243
21. PROTESTANTISM AND POLITICS: THE 19th CENTURY DIMENSION IN SYRIA 253
22. A SPANISH PERSPECTIVE OF THE 'SYRIAN QUESTION' IN 1844 271
23. LEBANON AT THE CROSSROADS 279
24. ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO NATIONALISM 317
25. ISLAM AND AMERICA'S NEW CRUSADE 335
26. ARABS & TURKS: COMMON HERITAGE, COMMON DESTINY 347
27. REASSESSING SULTAN ABDÜLHAMID II'S ISLAMIC POLICY 359
28. GREAT BRITAIN, GERMANY AND THE OTTOMAN CALIPHATE 375
29. ARAB SUPPORTERS OF SULTAN ABDÜLHAMID II: ‘IZZET AL-‘ĀBID 393
30. KHWALDDYAH SALAH: SPY, PATRIOT AND PAN-ISLAMIST 415
31. POLITICAL DIMENSIONS OF ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM 429
32. ORGANIZING FOR THE SECOND CONQUEST OF YEMEN 439
33. YEMENI FORTIFICATION AND THE SECOND OTTOMAN CONQUEST 451
34. ANNOUNCING AN OTTOMAN VICTORY IN HUNGARY TO A YEMENI EMIR 457
35. THE BRITISH CHALLENGE TO OTTOMAN AUTHORITY IN YEMEN 467
36. REAFFIRMING OTTOMAN SOVEREIGNTY IN YEMEN 1825-1840 487
37. A GERMAN PLAN OF REFORM FOR OTTOMAN YEMEN 501
38. SMUGGLING AND INTERNATIONAL POLITICS IN THE RED SEA IN THE LATE OTTOMAN PERIOD 513
39. BEGINNING OF IMPERIAL RIVALRIES IN THE PERSIAN GULF 531