Middle Eastern Politics and Ideas: A History from Within

248 Pages·1998·3.568 MB·English

by  Moshe Ma'oz, Ilan Pappé

Middle Eastern Politics and Ideas

Middle Eastern Politics and Ideas
A History from Within
Edited by
Ilan Pappé and Moshe Ma'oz

In loving memory of
Albert Hourani
A mentor, a colleague and above all a friend
Published in 1997 by
Tauris Academic Studies
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Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction 1
1 Albert Hourani the Historian
Roger Owen 7
2 The Return of the East: Muhammad Husayn
Haykal’s Recantation of Positivism, 1927-1930
Israel Gersboni 21
3 Albert Hourani and Orientalism
Gaby Piterberg 75
4 A Rare Testimony: Albert Hourani and the Anglo-
American Committee, 1946
Amikam Nachmani 89
5 The Emergence of Ottoman-Local Elites (1700-
1900): A Framework for Research
Ehud Toledano 145
6 From the 'Politics of Notables’ to the 'Politics of
Nationalism’: The Husayni Family, 1840-1922
Ihm Pappé 163
7 Attempts to Create a Political Community in
Modem Syria
Moshe Ma'oz 209
Index 229

Acknowledgements
The editors wish to thank the Truman Institute for peace at the
Hebrew University in Jersusalem for sponsoring the conference at
which, for the first time, these papers were presented and for its
generous financial assistance in covering the cost of editing and
stylizing.
We are also in great debt to Dick Bruggeman for his invaluable
editorial assistance and to Anna Enayat who helped and encouraged
us throughout the work that went into the publication of this volume.
Notes on the Contributers
Israel Gershoni is professor of Middle Eastern History at Tel Aviv
University. He has published widely on the intellectual history of the
modern Middle East. His latest book (with James P. Janowski) is
Redefining the Egyptian Nation 1930-1945, (Cambridge University
Press 1995).
Moshe Maoz is the director of the Truman Institute for Peace at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a full professor at the department
for the History of the Islamic Lands at the same university. His
publications include Asad: the Sphinx of Damascus (London, 1988) and
Palestinian Leadership on the West Bank (London, 1984).
Ahmad Nachmani is a senior lecturer at the department of political
studies at Bar Ilan University, Israel. His books include Great Power
Discord in Palestine: the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry into the
Problems of European Jewry and Palestine: 1945-1946. His latest book
is International Intervention in the Greek Civil War: the United Nations
Special Committee on the Balkans, 1947-1952 (New York 1990).
Roger Owen is professor of Middle East History at Harvard University
and author of State, Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern
Middle East (London, 1992) and The Middle East in the WorldEconomy
(London, 1993).
Ilan Pappé is a senior lecturer in the Department of Political Science
at Haifa University and academic head of the Institute for Peace
Research in Israel. He is the author of Britain and the Arab-Israeli
Conflict 1948-1951 (1988) and The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
1947-1951 (1992). He is the co-editor of Jordan: The Making of a
Pivotal State (1995).
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