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The Modern Middle East - A Political History Since World War I (Third Edition)

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by Mehran Kamrava


  Mongols, 20, 21

  Morocco, 1, 190; Arab Spring and uprisings (2011), 239, 291; associations, 284, 285, 287; baraka, 101, 421n84; Berbers, 48, 101; Bilad al-Makhzan, 47–48, 99; Bilad al-Siba, 48; border conflict with Algeria, 116; cultural legitimation, 279; democratization, 237–38, 280, 282–83; economic development, 229, 283, 356, 361; environmental pollution, 399; Equity and Reconciliation Commission (Instance équité et Réconciliation, IER), 286–87; exclusionary state, 217; French in, 3, 38, 47–49, 98–102, 237; housing, 394; independence, 100, 237; languages, 3; liberalization, 231, 282–83, 285, 286, 289; loyal opposition, 238, 250, 283; military coups attempted (1971/1972), 230, 237–38; and Nasser, 116; national charter, 281; nationalism, 73, 99–102, 107; and Ottomans, 2, 47; parliament, 238, 250, 273, 283, 286; Party for Justice and Development (PJD), 282–83; political opposition, 238, 251, 253, 260, 282, 283, 286–87; political parties, 19, 101, 102, 237, 238, 251–53, 260, 280, 283; rentierism, 229–30, 235; riots, 230, 356; Second Gulf War, 185; shah of Iran, 157–58; Spain and, 102, 237; state of emergency (1965–71), 238; sultanistic state, 214, 215, 229–31, 235, 237–39, 283; ulama, 237, 256; urban populations, 12. See also Morocco’s monarchy

  Morocco’s monarchy, 214, 229–31, 237–38, 263, 286–87; Hassan II (b. 1929), 157, 230, 237–38, 256, 286, 287; legitimacy, 101, 229–30, 235, 238, 439n61; makhzen, 283, 445n82; Mohammed V, 39, 100, 101–2, 105–6, 237, 256, 439n61; Mohammed VI (b. 1963), 230, 237–38, 286, 287; sherifian, 47, 101, 230

  Morris, Benny, 88, 317

  Morsi, Mohamed, 5, 293fig, 294, 345

  mortality: infant mortality rates, 388–89. See also casualties; martyrdom; massacres; suicide bombings

  Mosul, Iraq, 51

  motor vehicles: age of, 399; air pollution, 397–99; per individual, 398table

  Mousavi, Mirhossein, 166–67

  Mouvement Democratique et Social (MDS), Morocco, 253

  Mouvement National Populaire (MNP), Morocco, 253

  Mouvement Populaire (MP), Morocco, 253

  Muʿawiya, caliphate, 18–19

  Mubarak, Hosni: Arab Spring and revolution (2011), 29; fall, 267, 290, 293fig, 387; family wealth, 269–70; inclusionary state, 215; Iraqi-Kuwait mediations, 184; last prime minister, 294; and military, 220, 270; mukhaberat state, 222, 280; patrimonialism, 276; public portraits, 438n36; punishments toward poor, 369; rebellion against, 229, 272, 290–94, 293fig; and voluntary associations, 285

  Mohammed V, Morocco, 39, 100, 101–2, 105–6, 237, 256, 439n61

  Mohammed VI (b. 1963), Morocco, 230, 237–38, 286, 287

  Muhammad Ali, Egypt, 23, 412n7

  Muhammad Ali (r. 1907–9), Iran, 31

  Muhammad ibn-Abdullah. See Prophet Muhammad

  Muhammad ibn Saud, 62

  Muhammad Khan, Agha (d. 1797), 30–31

  Mujahedeen guerrillas: Afghanistan, 199–200; Iran, 151, 161

  mukhaberat: intelligence agency, 95, 217, 223, 226, 231, 279–80; state type, 217, 220–27

  multinational corporations, 261, 350

  Musaddiq, Muhammad, 144–47, 150, 426nn11,12,16

  Muslim Brotherhood: Egypt, 91–93, 255–59, 282, 294, 314, 345, 369; Jordan, 250, 259; Palestinian, 314, 315; Syria, 222, 228, 250, 260, 280

  Muslims, 2; Arab-Israeli, 245–48, 440n93; Byzantine tolerance of, 407n3; vs. Copts in Egypt, 134; divisions among, 18; and Haram al-Sharif, 333–35; Israel population of, 303; Lebanon, 247, 248–49; Palestinians, 74, 302, 310, 313, 315; Western, 165. See also Islam; Islamism; Shiʿites; Sufis; Sunnis; ulama; umma

  Muzaffar al-Din Shah (r. 1896–1907), 31

  mysticism, 29. See also Sufis

  NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement), 377

  Naguib, Muhammad, 92–93

  nakba: Palestinian (1948), 85, 88, 98–99, 126, 318; Six-Day War, 122, 126

  Naser al-Din Shah (r. 1848–96), 30–31

  Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 89–98, 94fig, 108–9, 126, 381, 420n72; Arabism, 90–91, 97–98, 106–9, 113–14, 137–38, 172, 190–93; Arab Socialist Union (ASU), 95, 102, 127, 134, 219; death (1970), 108, 123, 124, 126, 128, 171, 219; decline, 108, 109–23; inclusionary state, 215; Iraqi coup (1958) and, 42; and Palestinian nationalism, 85; The Philosophy of the Revolution, 93; resignation, 122; revolution from above, 140; Sadat and, 127, 134, 219; Saddam and, 137, 173, 174, 177, 209; and Six-Day War (1967), 85, 90, 108, 109, 116–23, 220; state modernist transformation, 218; statism, 219, 351; successors (attempted), 173, 174, 176, 191, 192; summits, 92–93, 95, 193; UAR, 98, 107, 108, 109–10, 111–13, 114, 116; and ulama, 256; U.S. and, 95, 96, 111; War of Attrition, 123, 126, 127, 128; and Yemen, 98, 108, 109, 114–17, 123, 137. See also Nasserism/Egyptian nationalism

  Nasserism/Egyptian nationalism, 35, 51, 64, 73, 85, 90–99, 109; end of, 122–23, 171; Free Officers, 92, 93, 127, 218; and globalization, 381, 383; Maghred nationalism and, 98–99, 100, 102, 106; 1973 war and, 326; Sadat and, 134, 219; secular, 254, 256. See also Nasser, Gamal Abdel

  Nateq-Nuri, Ali Akbar, 164

  National Assembly: Iraq, 184, 224; Kuwait, 233

  national charters, 281–82; Algeria, 281–82; Jordan, 281; Lebanon, 230, 248, 288; Morocco, 281; Palestinian, 449n30; Tunisia, 281

  National Democratic Party, Egypt, 134, 271

  National Entente, Morocco, 251

  National Front: Iran, 150, 151, 153, 157; Palestine, 136. See also National Liberation Front

  national identities: conspiracy theories and, 275; institutions and, 308, 313–15; Israeli, 106, 302–7, 317, 448–49n15; Palestinian, 66, 85, 86table, 87, 316–17, 449n30. See also ethnicity; nationalism

  national interest, 190–91, 254, 273–75

  National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), 144

  nationalism, 2, 8, 65, 68–107, 171–72, 192; antithetical nature, 70; defined, 68, 416n1; and economic development, 260, 348–50, 382; emergence, 4; globalization and, 382–83; Hijaz, 66, 71, 417n9; Iran and, 58, 71–72, 144, 146, 179, 274, 383; Iraq, 44, 179, 274; Israel, 73, 75–84, 98; Kurd, 244–45; liberal assimilation, 101; Maghreb, 73, 96–107, 116; official/unofficial, 274–75, 278, 279; Ottomanism, 27, 52, 70–71, 85, 86–87, 107; Palestinian-Israeli conflict and, 73, 82–98, 106, 276, 300–317; positive, 146; radical, 87, 101, 315; ruling bargain and, 274–76, 278, 279; secular, 106, 254–55, 262, 301–16, 450n37; traditionalist anticolonialism, 101, 102; Turkey, 27–28, 51–56, 70, 71–72, 106, 242, 383; Western compared with Arab, 85; Westphalian sovereignty, 86–87, 417n10. See also Arabism (Arab nationalism); Arab-Israeli wars; Nasserism/Egyptian nationalism; national identities; Palestinian nationalism; Pan-Arabism; Zionists

  national liberation: movements (1960s), 139; political parties, 69. See also National Front; National Liberation Front; Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO); revolutions

  National Liberation Front: Algeria (Front de Libération Nationale, FLN), 96, 100, 103, 105–6, 219, 250–51; Yemen, 114

  National Liberation Movement, PLO, 123–24

  National Pact/al-Mithaq al-Watani (1943), Lebanon, 248, 288

  National Progressive Unionist Party, Egypt, 251

  National Salvation Party, Turkey, 259

  national security, 213; presidential monarchies, 269, 271; quasi-democratic states, 242, 243; security states, 265, 270–71; U.S. strategy of prevention and preemption, 200; West Bank fence, 337. See also intelligence agencies; military; police

  National Security Council (NSC), Turkey, 242–43, 247, 283

  National Union (NU), Nasser’s Egypt, 95, 112–13

  nationhood: nationalism dependent on, 69–70. See also independence; state formation

  NATO: Libyan revolutionaries covered by, 295; Turkey, 110, 111

  navies: British, 36, 37; Iran, 180; U.S., 180, 181, 196

  Nazis/Holocaust, 51, 82, 301, 330

  negative equilibrium, state-society relations, 146, 385

  Neo-Destour Party, Tunisia, 100, 105, 219, 251

  Neolithic Revolution, 11

  Nestorian Church, Iraq, 10

  Netan
yahu, Benjamin, 193, 204, 330–31, 341

  new historians, 82

  New Order (Nizam-i Jedid), Ottoman, 25

  newspapers: Arab, 87; political opposition, 253, 285, 286

  New World Order, American-dominated, 172, 191

  NGOs (nongovernmental organizations), 285, 287, 399

  Nicaragua: democratization, 281; Iran-Contra Affair, 428n57; revolution, 140

  Nile River: cities, 12, 17, 20; water source, 402–4

  1973 war. See October 1973 War, Arab-Israeli

  Nixon, Richard M., 128, 137, 197

  Nizam-i Jedid (New Order), Ottoman, 25

  nomadic tribes, 11–12, 30, 33; bedouins, 11, 63, 236, 306, 369

  Non-Aligned Summit (Indonesia 1955), 92–93, 95

  nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), 285, 287, 399

  North Africa, 1, 48; Abbasids, 20–21; contraceptives, 393; economic conference, 193; Islamic expansion into, 17–18; Islamism, 254, 255; Mizrachim, 303–4; Ottomans, 23; political parties, 253; Shiʿites, 20–21; Umayyads, 19. See also Egypt; Libya; Maghreb; Sudan; Yemen

  North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), 377

  North Korea, axis of evil, 201

  nuclear program: Bush Doctrine, 200; Iran, 167, 168fig; Iraqi, 179

  Obama, Barack, 199, 207, 342

  Öcalan, Abdullah, 244–45

  Occupied Territories. See Israeli-Occupied Territories

  October 1973 War, Arab-Israeli, 36, 109, 126–37, 190, 247, 300, 324; aftereffects, 35, 108–9, 125, 131–32, 138, 219, 307, 314, 326; airlifts, 129, 131, 424n59; and oil, 131–32, 136, 148; Ramadan, 129–33, 423n55; Sadat and, 108–9, 127–30, 130fig, 132–34, 326; Suez Canal, 96–97, 127–31, 130fig, 424n57; Yom Kippur, 129, 131, 423n55

  oil, 190, 232; Aramco, 63–64, 416n83; biggest export, 377; boom (1970s), 255, 393; Britain’s Persian Gulf interests, 37, 64, 144; Dutch disease, 362; embargo, 136–37, 169; foreign workers in, 355, 360, 362, 369, 393, 394table, 416n83; Iran, 137, 141, 144, 146, 148, 149, 162, 164, 190, 359, 362; Iraq, 50, 180, 202–4, 359; Kuwait, 184, 186, 352; and liberalization, 234; 1973 war and, 131–32, 136, 148; OPEC, 137, 191; prices, 35, 136, 191, 198, 352; rentierism, 359–62, 383, 385, 459n37; Saudi, 63–64, 137, 198, 203, 352, 362, 415n83; Syria, 131, 190; U.S. Middle East policy and, 196, 199, 203. See also oil monarchies, Arabian peninsula

  oil monarchies, Arabian peninsula, 191, 366, 370; bureaucratization of, 232, 234; citizen and noncitizen population, 392, 394table; corporatism, 233–34, 277; foreign workers, 355, 360, 362, 369, 393, 394table, 416n83; GDPs, 352; and globalization, 383; legitimacy, 215, 229–30, 232–33; patronage, 233–38, 281–82, 372; princely privileges, 233–34, 439n74; punishments by state, 369; rentierism, 361–63, 385, 459n37; ruling families, 182, 186, 229–37, 372; semiformal entrepreneurs, 370, 372; sultanistic states, 215, 229–38; tribalism, 215, 232–34. See also Bahrain; Kuwait; Oman; Qatar; Saudi Arabia; United Arab Emirates (UAE)

  Oman: environmental protection, 464n20; and Iran’s radical clerics, 190; oil revenues, 352; and political opposition, 250; sultanistic state, 233, 234

  OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries), 137, 191

  Operation Enduring Freedom, 196–207, 336, 342, 404

  opposition politics. See political opposition

  Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), 137, 191

  organizations: civil society, 265–66, 281, 284, 296, 308; nongovernmental (NGOs), 285, 287, 399. See also associations; institutions; international organizations; labor organizations

  Orthodoxy, Jewish, 303, 306

  Orwellian totalitarian state, 226

  Osama bin laden. See bin Laden, Osama

  Oslo Accords (1993), 191, 193, 326–37, 341, 345, 381; Arafat/PLO/PNA and, 86, 125, 135, 308, 313–15, 328–34, 329fig, 455nn89,90; Declaration of Principles (DOP), 86, 328–29, 330; final status negotiations, 329–34, 344; Hamas and, 308, 315, 333; IDF influence, 247; intifada and, 86, 308, 313, 327–31; Netanyahu and, 204, 330–31, 341; Peres and, 193, 327, 330; Rabin and, 135, 324–25, 328–31, 329fig; Savir as chief Israeli diplomat, 455n89; Wye River Memorandum and, 331

  “the Other,” 6, 13, 302, 304

  Ottoman Empire, 1–3, 21–28, 33, 405; and Arabian peninsula, 23, 28, 39, 62, 63; Arab Revolt vs. (1916–18), 28, 35, 39–40, 62; Britain and, 24, 28, 37, 62, 63; central authority lacking, 13, 47, 48, 62; colonialist, 33–34, 387; demise (early 20th century), 1–4, 7, 13, 24–25, 28, 35–37, 44, 50, 65–66, 86–87, 218; dismemberment of, 39–42, 41map, 43; Egypt, 23, 24, 46, 412n7; European loans, 38; expansion (1500s), 7, 21; gunpowder empire, 23; Istanbul, 11, 22, 37, 47; janissaries, 23, 24; jihad, 39; language, 54; Maghreb, 23, 47–50, 106; nationalism (Ottomanism), 27, 52, 70–71, 85, 86–87, 107; New Order (Nizam-i Jedid), 25; Palestine, 46; Safavids compared, 28–29; Sublime Porte (Bab-i Homayun/Bab-i Ali), 23, 38, 47; Tanzimat, 25; three periods, 23–27; Turkey, 20, 22, 23, 28, 47, 51–53; Yemen, 114

  Owen, Roger, 265

  paganism, 10, 14, 15, 16

  Pahlavi, Muhammad Reza Shah, 58, 62, 142–53, 427n26; end of rule (1979), 58, 61, 141, 148, 153, 169; exclusionary leader, 228; in exile, 153, 157–58; Pahlavi name, 415n59; U.S. and, 144–46, 157–58, 198, 427n34

  Pahlavi, Reza Shah, 32–33, 39, 56–62, 141–42; Atatürk and, 57, 58, 60fig, 61; British removal/forced abdication (1941), 61, 141, 142, 143; death (1944), 61; exclusionary leader, 228; and Majles, 56–59, 142, 143, 145; and ulama, 57–58, 60, 256; with West vs. communists, 95

  Pahlavi state, Iran, 32–33, 56–62, 141–53, 235; four groups opposing, 150–53; four phases, 141–49; military, 59, 146, 153–55, 224; nationalism, 58, 71–72. See also Pahlavi, Muhammad Reza Shah; Pahlavi, Reza Shah

  Pakistan: Baghdad Pact, 110; intelligence service (ISI), 199–200; U.S. military presence, 201

  Palestine, 51, 301; aliya/migration from Europe to, 73–77, 76table, 85, 88, 300, 301; Balfour Declaration (1917), 41, 42, 44; birth of, 39; Britain and, 37, 38, 44–46, 50, 65–66, 79–80, 87–89; Israel replacing (1948), 39, 82–84, 299; Jews, 42, 44, 70, 73–84; mandatory rule, 44, 46, 50, 51, 79–80, 85, 86–87, 86table; Middle Eastern and African Jews migrating to, 303–4; Nasserism and, 85, 90; Ottoman, 46; partitionings, 46, 80–82, 81map, 84; Saladin, 21; Sykes-Picot Agreement, 40, 412n19; UN nonmember observer status, 341, 342. See also Israel; Palestinian refugees; Palestinians

  Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), 86, 86table, 117, 123–25, 311, 315–16; accommodationism, 325; Arab Liberation Front, 124; Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), 124; Democratic Union (FIDA), 124; Fatah, 117, 124, 315–16, 338, 339; and intifada, 86, 302, 311–15, 323, 327, 329–30; Iraq supported by, 124, 393; Jordanian tensions with, 230; legitimacy, 136, 308, 449n28; and Madrid Peace Conference (1991), 327; and 1973 war, 136, 313; organizations within, 124; Oslo Accords (1993), 86, 125, 135, 313–15, 328–34, 329fig, 455nn89,90; outside leadership, 309–10, 313–14, 329; Palestine National Council (PNC), 124, 313; Palestine National Front and, 136; Palestinian Liberation Army (PLA), 84, 124; Palestinian Liberation Front, 124; political Islam and, 313–14; Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), 124; Rabin negotiation over Gaza Strip and West Bank (1993), 135; and Sadat initiative, 326, 455n83; Second Gulf War, 186; secular, 302, 310, 313–14, 315, 450n37; Shuqairi, 123; and Syrian Vanguard for the Popular Liberation War, 124; UN land for peace resolution, 125. See also Arafat, Yasser

  Palestine National Council (PNC), 124, 313

  Palestine National Front, 136

  Palestinian-Israeli conflict, 4–6, 8, 193, 209, 211, 299–346; accommodationists, 324–26; Arab solidarity with Palestinians, 90, 172; Arab unity and, 172; borders, 123, 333; Clinton involvement, 191, 329fig, 331, 332, 334, 336, 342; deportation of Palestinian activists from Israel, 315, 324; exile experience, 299; human rights abuses by Israelis, 318–19, 322fig, 339, 451–52n54; international sympathy for Palestinians, 198, 275; and Israel as quasi-democratic state, 241–42; Jordan and, 123–26, 129, 136, 230, 326, 346, 455n87;
and living conditions in Occupied Territories, 307, 312–13, 317–18, 321–24, 451n50; mizug galuyot, 306; nationalisms/national identities and, 73, 82–98, 106, 276, 300–317, 449n30; “the Other,” 6, 302; peace process, 6, 125, 191, 193, 211, 323–46; rejectionism, 315, 325, 330, 345; ruling bargain, 212; after Six-Day war, 123; U.S. and, 186, 197–98; violence, 79–80, 83, 135–38, 193, 312–21, 323, 334–40, 450–54; water scarcity and, 402. See also Arab-Israeli wars; intifadas; Israeli-Occupied Territories; Palestinian nationalism; Zionists

  Palestinian Liberation Army (PLA), 84, 124

  Palestinian National Authority (PNA), 315, 316, 331, 345, 346; Abbas, 338; and Al-Aqsa intifada (2000), 317, 335; Arafat, 312, 312fig, 330; and associations, 285; Camp David II and, 332–34; central bank, 381; foreign aid, 339; Hamas conflicts with, 308–9, 313–14, 315, 334, 339, 451n48; after Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, 339–42; Oslo Accords and, 86, 308, 313–15, 329–33; Palestinian nationalism phase, 86, 86table, 311–12; Sharon and, 336; Wye River Memorandum and, 331

  Palestinian nationalism, 70, 73, 84–90, 98–99, 106, 284, 300–316; lost years (1948–67), 85, 86table, 88, 311; mandatory period, 85, 86–87, 86table; nakba (1948), 85, 88, 98–99, 126, 318; Palestinian National Authority phase, 86, 86table, 311; peaceful resistance phase (1914–17), 87; phases, 85–88, 86table, 311, 419n45; PLO years (1967–87), 85, 86table, 311; radicalization phase (1928–33), 87; religious, 302, 313–14; secular, 301–16, 450n37. See also Arabism (Arab nationalism); intifadas; Palestinian-Israeli conflict

  Palestinian refugees: Arab nationalism and, 90; Camp David II and, 333; camps in Lebanon, 107, 334; camps in Occupied Territories, 308, 309, 310, 316, 317, 450n37; and national identity, 307–8; 1948 war, 83–84, 89table, 121; oil monarchies, 393; Oslo Accords and, 329; Palestinian nationalism and, 88; population, 83, 88, 89table, 106–7, 236, 307, 309, 317, 419n45; right of return, 329, 332–37, 344; Six-Day War (1967), 121, 123, 317; UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), 309

 

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