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

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by Mehran Kamrava


  Palestinians, 299; Arab-Israeli ethnicity, 2, 306, 309; Arab Revolt (1936–39) vs. British, 80, 85, 88–89, 302; Arab solidarity with, 90, 172; associations, 124, 285; civil society organizations, 308; Deir Yassin massacre, 82–83, 419n43; diaspora, 89, 309–10, 387; divisions among, 302, 307–8; education, 87, 450n39; Egypt and, 90, 96; Fedayeen, 96, 117, 123, 124–25, 126, 138; GDP, 323; Hezbollah and, 260; house demolitions, 79–80, 123, 198, 317–19, 321, 324, 418n35, 453–54nn60,64; insiders/street, 308, 328–33; institutions, 308, 313–15; international sympathy for, 198, 275; Islamic Jihad, 260, 313–15, 337, 345; Israeli depopulation of, 317–21, 450n36; in Israeli-Occupied Territories, 135–36, 260, 300, 302, 309–24, 329–30, 331, 337; Israelis denying existence of, 77–79, 84, 106, 300, 302, 307, 316–17, 329, 345; in Jordan, 107, 288, 309; in Lebanon, 107, 248, 288, 309, 334; local notables (aʿyan), 310; local popular committees, 311; national identity, 66, 85, 86table, 87, 316–17, 449n30; and Partition Plan, 80–82; peripheral in Israel, 304, 306; religions, 74, 302, 310, 314–16; riots (1929), 87; Six-Day War as watershed for, 123; strike (1936), 88; “transfer” of, 450n36; youth, 82, 123–24, 310, 311, 323, 335, 450n39. See also Hamas; Palestinian-Israeli conflict; Palestinian nationalism; Palestinian refugees

  Pan-Arabism, 72–73, 89–90, 97–98, 107, 171–72, 190–94, 262; Arab Spring and uprisings (2011), 291; Egypt/Nasser, 72, 90, 97–98, 106–9, 113–14, 137–38, 172, 190–92; Syria, 7, 72, 108, 109, 113–14, 137. See also Arabism (Arab nationalism); Arab League

  Pappe, Ilan, 83–84, 317

  parliaments, 285; Egypt, 127, 269, 290; exclusionary states, 221; Israeli Knesset, 126, 245, 305, 326, 332, 334, 440n91; Jordan, 237, 251, 273, 283, 412n14; Kuwait, 233, 234, 250, 273; Lebanon, 288; Morocco, 238, 250, 273, 283, 286; Ottoman, 86–87; political opposition in, 251; presidential monarchies, 270, 276; Syria, 276; Turkey, 28, 53, 54, 244–45. See also elections; Majles (Iranian parliament); National Assembly

  Party for Justice and Development (PJD), Morocco, 282–83

  patriarchy, Palestinian, 312

  patrimonialism, 65, 228, 273

  patronage, 199, 254, 459n43; associations, 285; corporatist, 361; foreign, 260; monarchies, 233–38, 281–82, 372; Palestinian, 311; patrimonialism, 65, 228, 273; “patron states,” 277–78, 348–49; ruling bargain and, 291

  pax Americana, 196, 199, 201

  peace, democratic, 213

  peace process, Arab-Israeli, 135, 323–46; Camp David Accord (1978), 125, 134, 197, 325–27, 333, 345, 455n83; Camp David II (2000), 331–34, 336–37, 344; Egypt-Israel, 109, 128, 132–34, 193, 325–27, 332–33, 424n69; IDF influence, 247; Israel’s New Middle East proposal, 193; Jordan-Israel peace treaty (1994), 191, 403; land for peace, 125, 331; Madrid Peace Conference (1991), 326, 327; Palestinian-Israeli, 6, 125, 191, 193, 211, 323–46; road map for peace, 336–37; Sinai I & II treaties, 133, 135; UN resolutions, 125, 132; U.S. and, 125, 133–34, 197, 204, 325–27, 331–34, 336–37, 342, 344. See also Oslo Accords; treaties

  Peres, Shimon, 135, 193, 324–25, 327, 330, 337

  Perle, Richard, 204

  Persians, Iran, 2, 18, 20, 29, 175

  personal politics, 66, 171, 266, 268–69; exclusionary states, 219–20, 228, 269, 437n36; inclusionary states, 223–27; oil monarchies, 232; opposition parties, 252–53; Pahlavi, 61, 142; patrimonial, 65, 228, 276–77; public display of portraits, 220, 224, 227, 269, 437–38n36; Saddam, 177, 223–27, 269, 276, 429n9. See also leaders; local notables; monarchies; patronage; political elites

  petroleum era, 359–60. See also oil

  Philippines, democratization, 281

  Plan Dalet, 83–84

  PLO. See Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)

  PNA. See Palestinian National Authority

  poetry, 1, 56, 257, 414n56

  Poland: democracy from above, 281; immigrants to Israel from, 303; new state, 70

  police: economic development and, 385; Iran, 60, 145–46, 147, 150, 151, 152, 166–67; Iraqi female, 175fig; Palestinian, 330, 336; presidential monarchies, 269, 270, 271; security state, 270, 271; tribalism, 233. See also intelligence agencies; mukhaberat; repression, state

  political elites: Abbasid, 20; during Arab Spring and uprisings (2011), 291–95; and democracy, 239–48, 268–69, 280–90; globalization and, 382; hard-liners and soft-liners/liberalizers, 289, 297; Ilkhanid, 22; image, 149–50, 283; Iran, 167–68; Iraq, 174, 179; Islamist, 156–63, 243–44, 257–58, 261, 262; Lebanese zuʿama, 247, 250, 288; Mecca, 15, 17; nationalism and, 69–70, 91, 192; and national security, 213; opposition parties and, 252–53; “Oriental despots,” 283; Palestinian counterelite, 307–11, 313, 315–16; Palestinian traditional, 310–11; rentierism, 359; Saljuq, 22; Umayyad, 19. See also authoritarianism; caliphates; central authority; dictatorships; intellectuals; leaders; local notables; military coups; parliaments; personal politics; political parties; ruling bargain; ruling families

  political Islam. See Islamism

  political opposition, 250–64, 273; clandestine/informal, 250, 253; by clerics, 152–66, 255–58, 262–64; exclusionary states, 217, 222; intellectuals, 151–52, 255, 257, 262–63, 273, 286; Iran, 59, 141–68, 251, 254–57, 285–86; Jordan, 249, 251–53, 259, 282, 283; loyal, 54, 221, 238, 250, 283; middle class, 251, 260, 280; Morocco, 238, 251, 253, 260, 282, 283, 286–87; newspapers, 253, 285, 286; officially recognized/formal, 250; political parties, 150–61, 217, 221–22, 230, 238, 250–64, 280, 290, 296; radicalization of, 253–64; repression vs., 59, 149, 155–68, 175, 211, 250–56, 261, 263, 273, 286–87, 296; secular vs. religious, 250, 257, 263; sultanistic states and, 215, 230, 238, 249; Tunisia, 217, 251–53, 258–59, 291, 292, 296. See also Arab Spring and uprisings (2011); coups; Islamism; rebellion; revolutions; street demonstrations

  political parties: Bahrain, 272; change through, 285; exclusionary states, 219, 221; Iran, 58, 148–61, 251, 399; Islamist, 251, 258–60, 262–64, 282–83; Jordan, 251–53, 259, 283; Kurdish, 244–45; Morocco, 19, 101, 102, 237, 238, 251–53, 260, 280, 283; multipartyism, 242, 282–83; national liberation, 69; opposition, 150–61, 217, 221–22, 230, 238, 250–64, 280, 290, 296; ruling bargain and, 265–66; state (sole official party), 251, 285; Syria, 109, 112–13, 116, 173, 219, 222, 228, 251, 260, 280; Tunisia, 100, 104–5, 107, 218, 219, 222, 251–52, 258–59, 271, 282; Turkey, 53–55, 242–45, 252–53, 259, 260, 283–84. See also Algerian political parties; Baʿth party; Egyptian political parties; Israeli political parties

  politics, 4, 6, 7; community type, 11; economic actors and, 363, 372, 373; Egyptian chaotic, 91; exclusionary state, 215; exit of society from, 279–80; fascism, 50, 51, 76, 91, 301, 302, 330; globalization and, 374–77; Israeli-Occupied Territories, 321; leading to uprisings (2011), 372–73; liberalization, 215, 219, 234–35, 244–45, 262, 280–90, 358, 372–73; Mecca and Medina, 17; Mizrachim and Ashkenazim, 303, 304, 305; religion emerging in, 10–11; rentierism and, 460n54; “street,” 123, 157, 331, 332–33. See also central authority; confederations; conflicts; domestic politics; international allies; Islamism; nationalism; personal politics; political elites; political opposition; populism; states; treaties

  pollution, environmental, 388, 396–401

  Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), 124

  Popular Militia/Popular Army, Iraq, 174, 226, 368

  population, 388–96, 390–91table; by age, 393, 395table; Arab Israelis, 246; Arab refugees from Six-Day War, 121; Arab Revolt (1936–39), 88; Arafat’s bodyguards, 330; Egyptian forces in Yemen, 115; Egypt’s economy and, 348, 355; fertility rates, 389, 392table, 394–96, 425n3; and geography, 12–13, 33; Germans in Iran, 415n74; Greeks sent from Turkey to Greece, 53; infant mortality rates, 388–89; Iran, 425n3; Iran-Iraq War forces, 178; Iran-Iraq War POWs, 181; Iraqi Baʿthists, 226; Iraqi military, 178, 226; Iraqi refugees after U.S. invasion, 206; Israel’s religions, 303; Italian colonialism and, 48, 50, 99; Jews in Israel, 303; Jews in Occupied Territories, 319–20, 320table, 331–33; Jews in Palestine (1800s–1900s), 74, 76–77, 76table, 80–82; Leban
ese religions, 247; life expectancy, 388–89; Maghrebi colons, 99; Muslims in Afghanistan-Soviet conflict, 199; Palestine (1800s–1900s), 74, 77, 80–82; Palestinian depopulations in Occupied Territories, 317–21; Palestinian house demolitions, 79–80, 317–19, 418n35, 453n60; Palestinian Israeli, 309; Palestinian police, 330; Palestinian poverty, 322–23; Palestinian refugees, 83, 88, 89table, 106–7, 236, 309, 317, 419n45; Saud clan, 233–34; security state apparatus, 271; urban concentrations, 12–13, 33, 396, 397; U.S. and British troops in Iraq, 204; water scarcity and, 400–401, 403; youth, 266, 393; Zionist (1890s), 75; Zionist immigrants to Palestine (late 1800s), 76–77; Zionist military, 82. See also casualties

  populism: authoritarian, 219, 223; Egypt, 91–98, 110, 113; inclusionary states, 214, 215, 218; Iran, 161, 166, 178, 223, 224; Iraq, 214, 223, 226; Islamist, 255, 259, 262; Israeli Shas Party, 305–6; Palestinian nationalism, 86table; “populist-corporatist,” 457n7; ruling bargain, 275–76; Tunisia and, 215, 217; Turkey, 244

  postal system, Ottoman, 25

  poverty, 387; Islamic fundamentalism and, 262; Israeli-Occupied Territories, 321–24; Lebanese Shiʿites, 248; punished by states, 368–69, 461–62n69

  praetorian dictatorships, 214, 217–23, 278, 435n3

  pragmatism: dual containment policy, 201; Hijaz nationalism, 417n9; Iranian Republic, 163; Middle East regimes, 272; Nasser, 113; Rabin, 328; Zionist, 82

  prayer, Islamic, 2, 17

  predatory regimes, 217

  presidential monarchies, 268–71, 276, 387

  print capitalism, 69, 87

  prisons, Israeli, radicalizing effects of, 315

  privatization, 261, 361

  Progressive Republican Party, Turkey, 53

  Prophet Muhammad, 2, 14–19, 408–9n17; born Muhammad ibn-Abdullah, 14; death (632), 10, 17; hijrah, 15, 409n21; sherifian rulers related to, 39, 47, 101, 230; wife Khadija, 14; Yathrib, 11, 15, 409n21. See also caliphates

  protectorates, 65–66, 114. See also mandatory protectorates

  protests. See rebellion; street demonstrations; strikes

  public employment. See civil service/public employment

  punishments, by state, 368–69, 461–62n69

  Qaddafi, Muammar: and Arab nation, 172, 177, 192; Arab Spring and uprisings (2011), 291, 295, 295fig; brought down, 267, 387; inclusionary state, 215, 218, 223–28; Nasser and, 137–38, 192; patrimonialism, 276; revolution from above, 140; Third Way, 254

  Qaddafi, Seif al-Islam, 276

  Qadisiyya, Arab-Persian battle, 175, 227

  Qajars, 27, 28, 30–33, 56–57

  al-Qassam Brigade, 451n48

  Qassem, Abd al-Karim, 173–74, 218

  Qatar: foreign workers, 393; Lebanon mediation by, 249; Libyan activists supplied by, 296; Middle East and North Africa Economic Conference, 193; oil revenues, 352; and political opposition, 250; sultanistic state, 214, 215, 217, 233, 235; Syrian activists supplied by, 296

  Qavam, Ahmad, 147

  qiyas, 16

  Quartet on the Middle East (US/UN/European Union/Russia), 343

  quasi-democracies, 213–16, 239–50, 263

  Quran, 14, 15, 16; Arabic language, 1; profession of faith with, 17; Sufism and, 411n63

  Quraysh tribe, 14, 19, 412n9

  Quwatli, Shukri, 112

  Rabin, Yitzhak, 135, 324–25, 328–31, 329fig

  racism, Aramco, 416n83

  radio: Arab broadcasts to Palestinians, 83; corrupting innovation, 63; Egypt, 98, 113, 122, 123, 423n41; Israeli broadcasts to Palestinians, 317; Sudan, 222; Turkey, 243

  Rafi Party, Israel, 119

  Rafsenjani, Ali Akbar Hashemi, 162, 167, 224

  railways: Baghdad, 37–38; Iran, 60; from Mediterranean to India through Iraq, 413n27; Ottoman, 25; Turkey, 54

  rainfall, 400, 401. See also drought

  Ramadan: Islamic fasting, 17, 105, 131; 1973 war, 129–33, 423n55; Prophet and, 16

  The Ramadan War, 133

  al-Rashid, Harun, 20

  al-Rashid clan, 63

  Rashidun (Rightly Guided Ones), 18. See also caliphates

  Rastakhiz Party, Iran, 148, 251

  RCD (Constitutional Democratic Rally), Tunisia, 271

  Reagan, Ronald, 160–61, 184, 204

  rebellion, 229, 265–98. See also Arab Spring and uprisings (2011); Islamism; revolutions; riots; street demonstrations; strikes

  recession (1980s and 1990s), 261–62

  red lines, 239, 331

  Refah Party, Turkey, 243–44, 252, 259

  refugees: Arabs in Six-Day War, 121; Iraqi after U.S. invasion, 206; Syrian civil war, 296. See also Palestinian refugees

  rejectionism, Arab-Israeli conflict, 190; Palestinian-Israeli, 315, 325, 330, 345

  religions, 10, 179, 263; Arab-Israeli, 245–48, 440n93; Druze, 47, 74, 245–48, 303, 440n93; Islam as more than, 2; Israel populations, 303; Jews/Judaism, 2, 10, 246, 301–12, 448n7; Lebanon, 38, 44, 247, 248, 249, 288, 334; Middle Eastern commonalities, 1, 2, 3; minorities (treatment of), 19, 27, 29, 44; monotheistic, 10, 15, 62–63; pagan, 10, 14, 15, 16; Palestinian, 74, 302, 310, 314–16; political emergence, 10–11; Turkish nationalism and, 27, 54; Zoroastrianism, 10. See also Christians; clerics; fundamentalism; Muslims; mysticism; secularism

  rentierism, 63, 349, 358–63, 458n35, 459–60nn37,45,47,54; monarchies, 229–30, 235, 359, 362, 383, 385, 459–60nn37,45; oil and, 359–62, 383, 385, 459n37; unruly, 362–63, 384

  repression, state, 211, 215, 265–98; Arab Spring and uprisings (2011), 291–92, 296, 298; censorship, 59, 273, 286; exclusionary states, 214, 217, 221–23, 263, 278; inclusionary states, 223–28, 263; Islamism and, 262, 268, 272; of Kurds, 2, 242, 244–45; Morocco, 238, 286–87; vs. political opposition, 59, 149, 155–68, 175, 211, 250–56, 261, 263, 273, 286–87, 296; quasi-democratic states, 242, 244–45; ruling bargain and, 212, 272–81; sultanistic states and, 232, 235, 238; vs. terrorism, 265. See also authoritarianism; human rights abuses; police; violence

  republicanism: Egyptian, 92; exclusionary states, 222; French colonialism, 3; and patrimonialism, 276–77; Russian, 191; Tunisian, 104, 105; Turkey, 28, 50, 53–54, 56; Yemen, 114–16. See also elections; Iranian republicanism; parliaments

  Republican People’s Party (RPP), Turkey, 53–54, 55

  “republic of fear,” Saddam’s, 189–90, 206, 226

  Revolutionary Command Council (RCC): Egypt, 92–95; exclusionary state, 218; Iraq, 174–75

  revolutions, 107, 139, 170, 249; from above, 140, 242; Algerian, 100, 103–4, 116, 140; Arab Revolt vs. Ottomans (1916–18), 28, 35, 39–40, 62; Arab Revolt (Palestinians vs. British 1936–39), 80, 85, 88–89; coups distinct from, 140; Egypt (2011), 5, 217, 267, 275, 292–94, 386; European “Spring of Nations”/”Springtime of Peoples” (1848), 405; European Velvet Revolutions, 405; exclusionary states, 218; four ideal types, 140; French, 25, 140, 168; inclusionary states, 215, 223, 228; Iranian Constitutional Revolution (1905–11), 31–33, 56, 61, 142–43, 284; Iranian White Revolution (Inqilab-e Sefeed)/Revolution of the Shah and the People (1963), 146–48, 152; Islam as, 15; Libya, 5, 217, 226, 267, 275, 294, 368; Nasser (1952), 42, 85, 91–93, 97, 102, 114, 115, 140; nationalism and, 274; negotiated, 140; Neolithic Revolution, 11; 1973 war and, 137; planned, 140; Russian (1917), 28, 41, 43; Six-Day War defeat and, 122; spontaneous, 140, 141, 151; Sudan’s October Revolution (1964), 218; sultanistic states, 230; theatrical, 139; Tunisia, 5, 107, 217, 267, 275, 294, 386; Turkey’s revolutionism, 51, 53, 54, 140, 242, 413n37; Yemen, 115, 294, 296. See also Arab Spring and uprisings (2011); Iranian revolution (1978–79)

  Reza. See Pahlavi, Reza Shah

  Rice, Condoleezza, 204

  Richards, Alan, 349, 461n62

  Rif War, 48

  rights, 387–88; Arab Israeli, 246; Israeli and Palestinian right to exist, 77–79, 84, 106, 300, 302, 307, 316–17, 329, 345; mukhaberat states, 221; national security vs., 213; Palestinian refugee right of return, 329, 332–37, 344; quasi-democratic states, 239, 242; voting, 94fig, 147, 240, 245–46; women’s, 94fig, 147,
240, 256, 284, 387–88. See also human rights abuses

  riots: cost-of-living, 356; Egyptian vs. British (1919), 46; Iranis vs. Pahlavi state, 147, 149, 150, 152–53; Jordan’s “bread riots” (1980s), 191, 230; Morocco, 230, 356; Palestinian vs. British (1929), 87. See also revolutions

  rivers: cities along, 12, 17, 20; cradles of civilizations, 12, 33; water sources, 400–404. See also Jordan River

  Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 12, 62, 63, 200

  road building, 59, 200, 320

  Roman Empire, 10, 50

  Roosevelt, Franklin D., 197

  Rothschild, Lord, 42, 43

  Rothschild family, 76

  ruling bargain, 218, 268–98; and democracy, 273, 280–98; economic development, 211–12, 360, 365; four primary pillars, 273–74; state-imposed, 273, 290; unraveling, 272–81, 297–98

  ruling families, 229–37; corporatism, 230, 233–34, 277; oil monarchies, 182, 186, 229–37, 372. See also al-Assad family; Jordan’s Hashemite ruling family; Morocco’s monarchy; Pahlavi state; Saud clan

  Rumsfeld, Donald, 204

  Rushdie, Salman, 159, 227

  Russians: Armenians, 27, 53; Balfour Declaration and, 42–43; and British rule in India, 36; communist revolution (1917), 28, 41, 43; Cossack brigade, 55; and Iran, 31, 32, 55, 57, 61, 110, 142–43, 150, 168fig, 348; Jews, 42, 74, 303, 305; Ottomans and, 23–24, 27, 28; Quartet on the Middle East, 343; republic, 191; Sykes-Picot Agreement exclusion, 41; and U.S. invasion of Iraq (2003), 204. See also Soviets

  Saadet party, Turkey, 259

  al-Sabah family, 182, 233, 234; Sheikh Jaber, 182

  Sadat, Anwar, 108–9, 127–34, 177; Arabs disassociating from, 109, 134, 189, 192, 193, 326, 327, 455n83; assassination (1981), 134, 228; Camp David Accord (1978), 134, 325–27, 455n83; constitution, 268–69; electric-shock diplomacy, 133; The Hero of the Crossing, 133, 134; infitah (open door policy), 134, 137, 219, 351, 372; and Islamism, 199, 228; Jerusalem trip, 133, 326; 1973 war, 108–9, 127–30, 130fig, 132–34, 326; peace process, 109, 133–34, 325–27, 424n69; portraits, 130fig, 437–38n36; shah of Iran and, 158; state types, 215, 219, 220, 228, 229; U.S. and, 133–34, 198, 325–27

 

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