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

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by Mehran Kamrava


  Saddam Hussein, 172–90, 205fig, 192, 199, 217, 271–72; and Baʿthists, 173–75, 177, 188, 438n45; capture/trial/execution, 205fig, 206; conspiracy theories, 183–84, 188; inclusionary state, 214, 223–27, 367–68, 437n26; Iran-Iraq War, 172–82, 208, 227, 282; military rank, 174, 429n7, 437n26; and Nasser, 137–38, 173, 174, 177, 209; Pan-Arabism, 137–38, 193; patrimonialism, 276; personal politics, 177, 223–27, 269, 276, 429n9; Project for the New American Century vs., 434n80; Qadisiyya, 175, 227; “republic of fear,” 189–90, 206, 226; Second Gulf War and, 182–89, 208, 282; statue toppled, 202fig, 205. See also Saddam overthrow/U.S. invasion of Iraq (2003)

  Saddam overthrow/U.S. invasion of Iraq (2003), 4–5, 189, 201–9, 226, 337; authoritarian hard-liners strengthened by, 297; British occupation forces, 207fig; casualties, 206, 435n85; Iranis and, 203, 403; Iraqi state’s classification before, 226; Saddam statue toppled, 202fig, 205; unofficial nationalism and, 276; U.S. occupation after, 189, 201–7, 337; U.S. withdrawal (2009–11), 5, 207

  Sadr, Ayatollah Muhammad Baqir, 173

  Safavids, 22, 23, 28–30, 33, 411n65

  Said, Ali Ahmad (Adonis), 257, 450n37

  Said, Edward, 330, 346, 418n35

  Said, Şeyh, 53

  Saladin, 21

  Salafists, 259–60

  Salal, Abdullah, 422n22

  Saleh, Ali Abdullah, 290, 296

  Salehi, Ali Akbar, 168fig

  Saljuqs, 20, 21–22

  Sanaa, Yemen, 12

  San Remo Conference (April 1920), 39, 44

  al-Sanusi, Muhammad, 50

  Sanusi Sufi order, 50

  Sassanids, 9–10, 11, 17, 18

  Saud, King (son of Ibn Saud), 64, 233

  Saud clan, 39, 42, 51, 62–66, 233–34; bin Laden and, 200, 260; clergy incorporated by, 256; corporatism, 233–34, 277; Crown Prince Faisal, 65, 233; Ibn Saud (Abdel Aziz ibn Abd el-Rahman), 62–66, 236, 415n77; King Abdullah, 343; king as Custodian of Islam’s Two Holy Mosques, 282, 439n77; King Fahd, 271, 439n77; King Saud (son of Ibn Saud), 64, 233; population, 233–34; princely privileges, 233–34, 439n74; Prince Talal, 233; U.S. and, 64, 198, 199, 260

  Saudi Arabia, 62–66; agriculture, 6, 63, 354; Arab-Israeli wars, 118; and Arab nationalism, 192; Arab Spring and uprisings (2011), 275, 295; Aramco, 63–64, 416n83; Ben Ali exile, 292, 387; bin Laden and, 200, 201, 260; birth of, 39, 51, 62–66, 232; Buraydah, 12; conspiracy theories, 184, 274; corporatism, 233–34, 277; cultural niche, 279; domestic politics, 65, 250, 271; economic development, 63–64, 352, 354, 385; executions, 369; GDP, 352; globalization and, 382; Iran-Iraq War, 181–82; Islamic fundamentalists, 261; Islam used by, 234, 255, 282; Lebanon mediation by, 249; national consultative council, 271; oil, 63–64, 137, 198, 203, 352, 362, 416n83; and political opposition, 250, 255; rentierism, 459–60n45; repression, 215, 268; Riyadh, 12, 62, 63, 200; and Sadat initiative, 455n83; Second Gulf War, 184, 185, 186; sultanistic state, 214, 216, 232, 233–35; Taʾif Accord (1972), 248–49, 288–89; U.S. and, 64, 192, 198, 199, 200, 260; U.S. targets attacked in (1995 and 1996), 195, 200; and Yemeni civil war, 115, 116. See also Mecca; Medina; Saud clan

  SAVAK, Iran, 145–52

  science and technology, 34, 389

  Second Gulf War (1990–91), 4, 172, 182–91, 194, 208–9, 406; Bush popularity during, 201–2; casualties, 185, 186; and domestic pressures for liberalization, 234; “highway of death,” 183fig, 187–88; Iraqi military, 183fig, 184–89; Kuwait invasion, 172–73, 182–91, 208, 229, 282, 327; Operation Desert Shield, 186; Operation Desert Storm, 187, 431n38; U.S.-led coalition, 171, 184, 186, 190, 208, 327, 431n36; war of miscalculations, 184; women mourning, 187fig

  Second World War (1939–45), 36, 67; French defeat, 100; Iran and, 32, 61, 142–43, 348; Italian defeat, 50, 99; Jews, 51, 77, 82, 106; Nazis/Holocaust, 51, 82, 301; and trade, 348, 381

  secularism, 263; intellectuals, 257, 262, 263, 284; Iran, 59–60, 415n66; nationalist, 106, 254–55, 262, 301–16, 450n37; official Islam, 257; Palestinian, 301–16, 450n37; politicization of Islam vs., 255, 261; Turkey, 53, 55, 66, 242–44, 259; Zionist, 301–12. See also modernism

  security states, 265, 270–71. See also national security

  Selim III (r. 1789–1807), 25

  separatists, 266

  Sephardim, 302–3

  September 1, 2001, 172, 190, 194–96, 200–204, 261

  settlements, Israeli, 307; Oslo Accords and, 329, 331–33; population, 319–20, 320table, 331–33; preferential treatment of Jews, 313, 317–22, 453–54nn55,64; road map for peace and, 337; and water scarcity, 402; West Bank, 342

  Sèvres, Treaty of (August 1920), 39, 44

  shahs: Qajar, 30, 31–33, 56–57; Safavid, 29. See also Pahlavi state

  shantytowns, 394

  sharia, 16, 54, 59, 260, 389, 415n66

  Shariati, Ali (1933–77), 151, 257

  Shariatmadari, Grand Ayatollah Kazem, 161

  Sharon, Ariel, 131, 330–39

  Shas Party, Israel, 304, 305–6

  Shiʿites, 217; Bahrain, 272, 295; clergy hierarchy, 426n22; conspiracy theories about, 274; deifying certain individuals, 62–63; Hezbollah militia, 249; Iran, 23, 29, 30, 57–58, 152–53, 190, 275; Iraq, 44, 147, 173, 179, 187fig, 188, 206, 208, 431n41; Lebanon, 247, 248, 249, 274; North Africa, 20–21; partisans, 18; Safavids, 23, 29; Twelver (Imami) branch, 29. See also ulama

  Shlaim, Avi, 344

  Shuqairi, Ahmad, 123

  Sick, Gary, 160, 428nn51,55

  Sinai, 84, 138; Arab-Israeli wars, 96–97, 118–21, 123, 126–32, 190; Camp David Accord and, 125, 134, 325–27, 344; Strait of Tiran, 118, 119

  Sinai I & II treaties, 133, 135

  Six-Day War (1967), 36, 109, 116–31, 138, 189, 300, 324; casualties, 121, 422n35; and exclusionary state formation, 219; Israeli-captured territories, 120map; Israeli military, 119–21, 121fig, 247, 422n35; lightning blitz, 119–21; Nasser and, 85, 90, 108, 109, 116–23, 220; Palestinian nationalism phases, 85; Palestinian refugees, 121, 123, 317; radio from Egypt, 122, 123, 423n41; and secular nationalism’s decline, 254

  social change, state-led: democratization, 285–90; Iran, 58, 285–90, 384; Tunisia, 105; Turkey, 54, 384. See also liberalization; modernism; social welfare programs

  Social Democratic Movement Parties, Tunisia, 251

  socialism: etatism vs., 457n7; exclusionary states, 219; Iranian revolutionaries, 151; Nasser’s Egypt, 95, 102; Six-Day War and, 122

  social media, 284, 292

  social welfare programs, 231, 265–66, 271, 362–63, 383

  socioeconomic levels: military, 219, 221; Mizrachim and Ashkenazim, 303–5; Palestinian, 310–11, 317, 321–23. See also classes; economic sectors; education; employment; poverty

  Somalia: separatists, 266; U.S. targets attacked in (1993), 195

  Soroush, Abdolkarim (b. 1945), 257, 258

  South America. See Latin America

  Southeast Anatolian Development Project (GAP), Turkey, 402

  Soviets: Afghanistan invasion (1979), 159, 170, 199–200; and Arab-Israeli conflicts, 117, 119, 122–23, 128–29; Cold War, 110–11, 146, 170, 197; collapse, 172, 199; Egypt aided by, 96, 122–23, 128–29; and Iran, 32, 110, 142–43, 150, 348; Madrid Peace Conference (1991), 327; and PLO, 136; and Syria, 190; Turkey aided by, 55; World War II, 142–43, 381. See also Eastern Europe; Russians

  Spain: Franco, 102; Islamic expansion into, 17–18; Madrid Peace Conference (1991), 326, 327; and Morocco, 102, 237; Sephardim and, 302–3; Umayyads, 19, 20–21

  Springborg, Robert, 276, 285–86

  “Spring of Nations”/”Springtime of Peoples” revolutions (1848), Europe, 405

  state formation, 3, 36–67, 69, 213, 218–22, 387; exclusionary states (three stages), 218–20; Iran (1920s), 38, 59–61; Israel (1948), 35, 39, 66, 73–84, 299; and rentierism, 235, 362; Saudi Arabia (1920s), 39, 51, 62–66; Turkey, 27–28, 38, 39, 51–56. See also independence; local nation builders (1920s); monarchies

  states, 8, 213–64, 368; bureaucracies, 59, 217–19, 224, 232, 234,
362, 365, 371, 385; economic role, 6, 349–72; exclusionary/mukhaberat/praetorian, 213–29, 263, 278, 416n83, 435n3, 437–38nn26,36; hydraulic, 12, 13, 33; inclusionary, 213–18, 223–29, 263, 273, 367–68, 437n26; Islamic, 15–17, 19; and Islamist parties, 259–60; limited, 371; and nationhood idea, 70; Orwellian totalitarian, 226; progressive (nonaligned) and conservative (pro-Western), 110; quasi-democratic, 213–17, 239–50, 263; revolutionary, 223; security states, 265, 270–71; social welfare programs, 231, 265–66, 271, 362–63, 383; sultanistic, 213, 214, 227–28, 229–39, 263, 283; transformative, 218, 226; vs. ulama, 255–58. See also central authority; civil service/public employment; corporatism; corruption; dictatorships; Islamic states; leaders; legitimacy, state; monarchies; nationalism; nationhood; patronage; politics; rentierism; repression, state; republicanism; revolutions; state formation; state-society relations; statism; taxes; wars

  state-society relations, 4, 5, 8, 33, 139, 264, 279–81; consensus, 273; exit of society from political process, 279–80; gap, 263, 265; hard-liners and soft-liners/liberalizers and, 289, 297; Iran, 143, 146–47, 273, 285–86; mukhaberat states, 221; negative equilibrium, 146, 385; negotiated revolutions, 140; negotiated transition to democracy, 268–69, 280, 285–90; parallel or alternative society, 279; praetorian polities, 278; rentierism and, 359–60, 362–63, 385; social welfare programs, 231, 265–66, 271, 362–63, 383; spontaneous revolutions, 140; statism and, 357–58; weakness in, 143, 207–8, 263, 363–64, 384; Yemen, 114. See also civil society; corporatism; democracy; domestic politics; economic development; institutions; legitimacy, state; patronage; political opposition; political parties; revolutions; riots; ruling bargain; social change, state-led

  statism, 49, 134, 348, 349–57, 363–64; Algeria, 219, 351; and democratization, 274; economic development, 49, 51, 134, 274, 348, 349–57, 362, 363–64, 381–82; Egypt, 218, 351; rentierism and, 362; Turkey, 49, 51, 53, 351, 384

  steamships, Ottoman, 25

  Stern, Avraham, 80

  Stern Gang, 79, 80, 82

  street demonstrations: Arab Spring, 5, 291–94, 293fig; Cairo, 5, 134, 292, 293fig; days of rage, 291; inclusionary states, 228; Iranian Republic, 157–58; Jordan, 230; Palestine state, 341. See also intifadas; riots; strikes

  strikes: Iranis vs. Pahlavi state, 149, 150, 152–53; Palestinian (1936), 88

  Sublime Porte (Bab-i Homayun/Bab-i Ali), Ottoman, 23, 38, 47

  Sudan, 382; al-Bashir, 220, 258; bin Laden, 200; British and, 46–47, 218; civil war, 191, 220–22; conspiracy theories about, 274; cost-of-living riots, 356; cultural niche, 279; inclusionary state, 215; Liberation Army, 221–22; military rule, 221–22, 357; Nasser and, 96; October Revolution (1964), 218; Pan-Arabism, 72, 98; praetorian dictatorship, 214; separatists, 266; state employees, 218; statism, 351; al-Turabi, 257, 258; urban populations, 12; water, 402–3

  Suez Canal: Arab-Israeli wars, 96–97, 127–31, 130fig, 424n57; nationalized by Egypt, 37, 93, 96, 108; West and, 36–38, 39, 46–47, 110, 413n28

  Sufis, 411n63; vs. Atatürk, 53; Egypt, 284; Safavid genesis, 23, 29; Sanusi order, 50; Wahhabis and, 62–63

  suicide bombings, 200, 208fig, 315; Palestinian, 323, 324, 335, 337, 451n48, 454n74

  Suleyman I (r. 1520–66), 23

  sultanistic states, 213, 214, 227–28, 229–39, 263, 283

  summits: Arab League, 136, 193; Arab summit conference (Fez 1982), 125; Camp David II (2000), 332–34, 344; Nasser’s inauguration of (1964), 193; Non-Aligned Movement (Indonesia 1955), 92–93, 95

  Sunnis, 217, 426n22; Bahrain, 272; Iran, 29; Iraq, 188; Lebanon, 247, 248; Ottomans, 29; Palestinian, 74, 310; Safavids vs., 29; Syria, 44, 227; traditionalists, 18–19

  Swiss Civil Code, Turkey, 54

  Sykes, Sir Mark, 43, 412n19

  Sykes-Picot Agreement (1916), 38–41, 41map, 43, 44, 412n19

  Syria, 1, 51; Alawis, 228, 269; Alexandretta, 51; Arab-Israeli wars, 84, 117–21, 124–26, 129–30, 135; Arab Revolt, 39, 40; Arab Spring and civil war (2011–13), 5, 217, 223, 267, 291, 294–96, 297fig, 447n124; Baʿthists, 109, 112–13, 116, 173–74, 218, 219, 251; birth of, 39, 46; and Camp David Accord (1978), 455n83; CIA plot to overthrow government, 111; coups, 109, 111, 113–14, 117, 218; cultural legitimation, 279; domestic politics, 109–17, 218, 219, 221; economic development, 348, 351, 357, 382, 403; economic reforms, 356–57; Egyptian union with (UAR, 1958–61), 72, 98, 106, 108, 109–10, 111–13; exclusionary state, 214, 217; French in, 38, 41–42, 45–46, 50, 79–80, 218; Hama massacre (1982), 222; inclusionary state, 215; intellectuals, 90, 106, 174, 257; and Iran, 190; Iraqi refugees after U.S. invasion, 206; Islamic expansion into, 17; and Israel, 119–21, 125–26, 129, 131, 134–35, 138, 190, 247, 403; Jacobite Church, 10; Kurds, 2; and Lebanon, 248–49, 288–89; Madrid Peace Conference (1991), 327; military, 109, 111, 113, 117, 129, 221, 289; mukhaberat, 217, 220, 221; Ottomans, 23, 46; Palestinians in, 107, 309; Pan-Arabism, 72, 98, 108, 109, 113–14, 137; patrimonialism, 276; peace process, 331; political parties, 109, 112–13, 116, 173, 219, 222, 228, 251, 260, 280; “presidential monarchy,” 269, 270, 276; presidential political system, 109; railways, 37–38; Saddam in, 174; Saladin, 21; Second Gulf War, 185; security establishment, 269; Sinai I and II treaties and, 135; socialist state, 219; and Soviets, 190; Sykes-Picot Agreement, 40; Transjordan and, 413n27; unemployment, 272; UN peace resolutions, 125, 132; urban populations, 12; U.S. invasion of Iraq and, 203, 206; Vanguard for the Popular Liberation War, 124; water, 117, 402, 403; Zionist military and, 79–80. See also al-Assad family; Damascus; Golan Heights

  Tabriz, Iran, 29, 32

  Taʾif Accord (1972), 248–49, 288–89

  Taliban, Afghanistan, 196, 200, 201, 261

  Tantawi, Mohammed Hussein, 292–93

  Tanzania, U.S. targets attacked in (1998), 195, 200

  taxes: economic liberalization and, 260; informal sector and, 366, 367; Ottoman, 34, 62; PNA revenues, 342; rentierism and, 358, 359; semiformal sector, 371; Umayyad, 19

  technology: high-technology exports, 375–77, 462n84, 463n85; science and, 34, 389. See also media

  Tehran, 30–31, 403; air pollution, 397–99; despair, 404–5; embassy powers, 143; hostage crisis (1979–81), 155, 157–61, 171, 173, 176, 197, 428nn50,51; local associations, 31–32; population growth problems, 396, 397–99; University of Tehran, 60

  telegraph lines, 25, 30

  television, 243, 288; Al-Jazeera, 189fig, 198, 267, 292, 382

  terrorism, 208; attacks on U.S. targets abroad, 195, 200; conspiracy theories about, 274; Irani reign of terror, 155, 156, 161–63, 168, 176; Islamist, 194–96, 261, 268; multinational corporations and, 261; national security states vs., 265; official nationalism and, 274; Turkish domestic, 243; U.S.-led coalition in Iraq vs. (1990s), 171; U.S. war on, 190, 195, 200–203, 336, 433n72; Zionist, 80, 83. See also Al-Qaeda/bin Laden; suicide bombings

  al-Thani family, Qatar, 233

  Thant, U, 118

  Third World: cities, 396; depoliticization of militaries, 243; economic underdevelopment, 347–48; Egyptian advocacy of independence in, 96

  Third Worldism (1950s), 139. See also revolutions

  Tigris River, 12, 402–4

  trade: caravan, 9; imports, 347–48, 377, 394–95, 464n16; intraregional, 377–82, 377–81tables; Mecca, 14. See also economic sectors; exports; oil

  tradition: imagined/civic myth, 215, 231, 234, 238, 263; inclusionary states and, 227; state modernist transformation, 218; sultanistic states, 229–30, 232–33, 235, 237; Sunnis and, 18–19; traditionalist anticolonialism, 101, 102. See also cultural values; religions; tribalism

  Trans-Iranian Railway, 60

  Transjordan, 51; Abdullah, 42, 46, 71, 84, 412n14; birth of, 39, 42, 46; Britain and, 37, 39–46, 50, 65, 413n27; name change to Jordan, 41, 412n14. See also Jordan

  transportation: airlifts in 1973 War, 129, 131, 424n59; imports in equipment for, 377; postal system, 25; road building, 59, 200, 320; steamships, 25; telegraph lines, 27, 30. See also airline violence; canals; motor vehicles; railways; ri
vers

  treaties: Balfour Declaration (1917), 37, 39, 41, 42–43, 44; borders and national designations, 39, 44, 50; Geneva Convention (1947), 318; Iran-Iraq (1975), 173; Jordan-Israel peace (1994), 191, 403; Lausanne (1923), 28; San Remo Conference (April 1920), 39, 44; Sèvres (August 1920), 39, 44; Sinai I & II, 133, 135; Sykes-Picot Agreement (1916), 38–41, 41map, 44, 412n19; U.S.-Iran mutual military agreement (1959), 173; Versailles, 43; water, 403. See also Oslo Accords; peace process, Arab-Israeli; summits

  tribalism: Iran, 57, 143; Jordan and, 236; oil monarchies, 215, 232–34; Quraysh, 14, 19; tribal corporations, 233; Turkic, 22, 28; uymaqs, 29, 30. See also nomadic tribes; ruling families

  Tudeh Party, Iran, 150, 161

  Tunisia, 1, 217–22; Al-Nahda, 217, 222, 251, 259, 282, 437n32; Arab Spring and revolution (2011), 5, 217, 251–52, 267, 275, 291–95, 386; beylik, 99, 104, 105; Bourguiba, 39, 100, 105–6, 114, 116–17, 215, 219; Constitutional Democratic Rally (RCD), 271; constitutions, 5, 106; cultural legitimation, 279; and democracy, 282; economic development, 351, 357, 364; exclusionary state, 215–19, 222; French in, 3, 38, 47–49, 98–106, 218; GDP, 352; al-Ghannouchi, 257, 258; inclusionary state, 215; independence, 100, 103–5, 218; Islamic expansion into, 17; languages, 3; liberalization, 219, 283; mukhaberat, 217, 220; and Nasser, 114, 116; national charter, 281; nationalism, 73, 100, 103–7; Ottomans, 23, 46, 47, 50, 106; PLO, 311, 325; political opposition, 217, 251–53, 258–59, 291, 292, 296; political parties, 100, 104–5, 107, 218, 219, 222, 251–52, 258–59, 271, 282; “presidential monarchy,” 269, 270; pro-Western state, 219; urban areas, 11; youth population, 266. See also Ben Ali, Zein el-Abidine

  al-Turabi, Hasan (b. 1932), 257, 258

  Turkey, 1, 27, 40, 51–56, 387; Alexandretta, 51; and Armenians, 27, 28, 53, 410n60; Baghdad Pact, 110; birth of, 39, 51–56; constitutions, 27–28, 242, 243, 411n61; corporatism, 55, 242–43, 278; cultural niche, 279; democratization, 215, 240, 241–44, 247, 262, 281, 283, 297; economic development, 51, 55, 348, 352, 355, 357, 364; and globalization, 383; Greeks in, 28, 53; Gulf War effects, 194; harem, 26fig; independence (1923), 28, 53, 56, 69–70; and Islam, 52, 54, 56, 243–44, 255; Islamists, 259, 261; Israel alliances, 194; Khomeini exile to, 147; Konya and Bursa, 12; Kurds, 2, 50, 52, 53, 58, 242, 244–45, 263; loyal opposition, 54; military, 53, 240–44, 247, 263, 283, 348; military coups, 240, 242–44, 283–84; modernization, 51, 53–56, 66, 242; Mosul, 51; motor vehicles, 397; nationalism, 27–28, 51–56, 70, 71–72, 106, 242, 383; national name, 52–53, 70; National Security Council (NSC), 242–43, 247, 283; NATO, 110, 111; Ottomans, 20, 22, 23, 28, 47, 51–53; political opposition, 252–53, 259, 263; political parties, 53–55, 242–45, 252–53, 259, 260, 283–84; quasi-democratic state, 215, 240, 241–44, 247, 263; regional dominance, 194–97; republicanism, 28, 50, 53–54, 56; revolutionism, 51, 53, 54, 140, 242, 413n37; Saljuqs, 20, 22; state formation, 27–28, 38, 39, 51–56; state-led social change, 54, 384; statism, 49, 51, 53, 351, 384; Swiss Civil Code, 54; Syrian border conflict, 111, 112; Turks as ethnic majority, 2, 241; urban populations, 408n14; water, 400, 401, 402; with West vs. communists, 95. See also Atatürk, Mustafa Kemal; Istanbul

 

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