5. Haifa at the Crossroads: An Outpost of the New World Order

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Contributors xiii
5. Introduction: The Connected World of Empires 1
6. 1. Trade and Port Cities in the Red Sea–Gulf of Aden Region in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century 28
7. 2. A Divided Sea: The Cairo Coffee Trade in the Red Sea Area during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 46
8. 3. The Red Sea Ports During the Revolution in Transportation, 1800–1914 58
9. 4. Port Cities as Nodal Points of Change: The Indian Ocean, 1890s–1920s 75
10. 5. Haifa at the Crossroads: An Outpost of the New World Order 96
11. 6. Islamic Universalism and the Construction of Regional Identity in Turn-of-the-Century Basra: Sheikh Ibrahim al-Haidari’s Book Revisited 112
12. 7. Damascus and the Pilgrim Caravan 130
13. 8. Aspects of Economy and Society in the Syrian Provinces: Aleppo in Transition, 1880–1925 144
14. 9. Representing Copts and Muhammadans: Empire, Nation, and Community in Egypt and India, 1880–1914 158
15. 10. İzmir 1922: A Port City Unravels 204
16. 11. Negotiating Colonial Modernity and Cultural Difference: Indian Muslim Conceptions of Community and Nation, 1878–1914 230
17. 12. The Tangled Ends of an Empire and Its Sultan 261
18. 13. Racial Readings of Empire: Britain, France, and Colonial Modernity in the Mediterranean and Asia 285
19. 14. Alexandria: A Mediterranean Cosmopolitan Center of Cultural Production 314
20. 15. Between Politics and Literature: Journals in Alexandria and Istanbul at the End of the Nineteenth Century 330
21. 16. Printing and Urban Islam in the Mediterranean World, 1890–1920 344
22. 17. Space and Time on the Indian Ocean Rim: Theory and History 365
23. Index 389