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Endnotes
1. This description is based on a contemporary report which I wrote for SOAS.
2. The proceedings of the conference were published in a volume entitled Tensions in the Middle East, edited by Philip W. Thayer, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1958, pp. 50–60. My talk was reprinted in From Babel to Dragomans, pp. 232–39.
3. The languages: EUROPE: Albanian, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croat, Spanish, Swedish. MIDDLE EAST: Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Turkish. ASIA: Chinese, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Urdu.
Index
Abdullah, King of Jordan, ref1, ref2
Ada, ref1
Adams, Arlen, ref1
Aden, ref1
Adnan Bey, ref1
Afghanistan, ref1, ref2
Soviet invasion of, ref1, ref2, ref3
Africa, ref1
African Americans, Islamic names of, ref1
Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud, ref1
Ajami, Fouad, ref1
Albanians, Albanian language, ref1
alcohol, Muslim ban on, ref1
Algerian War of Independence, ref1, ref2
Algiers, ref1, ref2, ref3
Ali, Rashid, ref1
Al-Qaida, ref1, ref2
American University in Cairo, ref1
Amman, ref1
Amman, University of, ref1
Ankara, University of, ref1
Annales, ref1
Annenberg, Walter, ref1, ref2, ref3
Annenberg Research Institute for Judaic and Near Eastern Studies, ref1, ref2
Anthology of Turkish Literature, An (Silay), ref1
anti-Americanism, ref1, ref2, ref3
anti-Semitism, ref1, ref2
Arabic, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
colloquial, ref1
Arab League, ref1
Arabs in History, The (Lewis), ref1, ref2, ref3
revising of, ref1
Arab Spring, ref1, ref2, ref3
Arafat, Yasser, ref1, ref2
Aras, Tevfik Rüştü, 50
Armenian massacres:
Holocaust compared to, ref1, ref2
lawsuits over BL’s characterization of, ref1
Armenian Medical Association, ref1
Armenian National Committee of France, ref1
Armenian Report International, ref1
Arthur, Geoffrey, ref1
Asia, ref1, ref2, ref3
Assad, Hafiz al-, ref1
Assassin
s, ref1, ref2, ref3
as forerunners of modern terrorists, ref1, ref2, ref3
Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA), ref1
Atatürk, Kemal, ref1, ref2, ref3
women’s emancipation and, ref1
Atatürk Prize, ref1
Atlantic Monthly, ref1
Australia, ref1
Avedon, Richard, ref1
Ayyubid period, ref1
Al-Azhar Mosque and University, ref1
Badoglio, Marshal, ref1
Baghdad, ref1, ref2
Balkan Peninsula, ref1
Bandar, Prince of Saudi Arabia, ref1
Bangladesh (East Pakistan), ref1, ref2, ref3
Banna, Hassan al-, ref1
Barbary Corsairs, ref1, ref2, ref3
Bar-Kokhba Revolt, ref1
“barratry,” ref1
Baynes, Norman H., ref1
Bedouin, ref1, ref2
Begin, Menachem, ref1
Beirut, U.S. Embassy and barracks attacks in, ref1
Ben-Zvi, Isaac, ref1
Berlin, Japanese embassy in, ref1
Beyond Chutzpah (Finkelstein), ref1
Bialik, H. N., ref1, ref2, ref3
Bible:
Hebrew (Old Testament), ref1, ref2
mistranslation of, ref1
New Testament, ref1
Bilād al-Sūdān, ref1
bin Ladin, Osama, ref1, ref2, ref3
Black Sea, ref1
Bletchley Park, ref1
Bombay, ref1
Bourguiba, Habib, ref1
Bramley, Jennings, ref1
Brimicombe, Marcelle Manusset, ref1
Brimicombe, William, ref1
British Academy, ref1
British Empire, end of, ref1, ref2
Browning, Robert, ref1
Brzezinski, Zbigniew, ref1, ref2
Buddhism, ref1, ref2
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, ref1
Bunche, Ralph, ref1
Bush, George H. W., ref1, ref2, ref3
Bush, George W., ref1, ref2
Byzantine Empire, ref1, ref2, ref3
Cahen, Claude, ref1, ref2
Cairo, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
California, University of:
at Berkeley, ref1
at Los Angeles (UCLA), ref1, ref2
Caliphs, ref1, ref2
Cambridge University, ref1
Carter, Jimmy, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Castel Gandolfo, ref1, ref2
Castro, Fidel, ref1
Catholic Church, ref1
Ceauşescu, Nicolae, ref1
“champerty,” ref1
Cheney, Dick, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
China, ref1, ref2, ref3
Christians, Christianity:
anti-Semitism and, ref1
early history of, ref1, ref2
Israeli, ref1
Jews as viewed by, ref1
Muslim view of, ref1, ref2
triumphalist approach of, ref1
U.S. seen as leading power of, ref1
Churchill, Buntzie Ellis, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
Churchill, Winston, ref1
Church of England, ref1
Church of the Holy Sepulchre, ref1
citizenship, identity and, ref1
“clash of civilizations,” ref1
Clash of Civilizations (Huntington), ref1
“class,” use of term, ref1
Clinton, Bill, ref1, ref2
code breaking, ref1, ref2
coffee, history of, ref1
Cold War, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Collège de France, ref1
Commentary, ref1, ref2
Confucianism, ref1
Congress, U.S.:
Armenian massacres and, ref1
see also Senate, U.S.
Conservative Party, ref1
Constantine, Emperor of Rome, ref1
Constantinople, ref1, ref2
see also Istanbul
consultation, Islamic tradition of, ref1
Coornaert, Emile, ref1
Copts, ref1
Córdoba, ref1
Cornell University, ref1
“Corsairs in Iceland” (Lewis), ref1
Crac des Chevaliers, ref1
Creditor, Leon Shalom, ref1
Crisis of Islam, The (Lewis), ref1
Cromwell, Oliver, ref1
Crusader states, ref1
Crusades, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Cypriots, ref1
Cyprus, ref1, ref2
Cyrus the Great, ref1
Czechoslovakia, Nazi invasion of, ref1
Damascus, ref1
Dante Alighieri, ref1
Dari, ref1
Dayan, Moshe, ref1, ref2, ref3
“Declaration of the world Islamic front for jihad against Jews and the Crusaders” (bin Ladin), ref1
de Gaulle, Charles, ref1, ref2
de la Mare, Arthur and Elisabeth, ref1
Demirel, Süleyman, ref1
democracy, Muslim world and, ref1
Denmark, ref1, ref2
Depression, ref1, ref2, ref3
“dining in hall,” ref1
“Dirge, The” (Lewis), ref1
Dodwell, Professor, ref1
Dovre Ivrit, ref1
Dreyfus affair, ref1
Dropsie College, ref1, ref2, ref3
Eastern Question, ref1, ref2
Eban, Aubrey (Abba), ref1
Eckersley, C. E., ref1
Economic History Review, ref1
Edib, Halide, ref1
education:
and end of imperialism, ref1
in England, ref1, ref2, ref3
and students’ lack of general knowledge, ref1, ref2
study of history and, ref1
of women, ref1, ref2
Egypt, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Arab conquest of, ref1, ref2
BL’s trips to, ref1, ref2, ref3
Britain and, ref1, ref2
“Free Officers” coup in, ref1
identity issues in, ref1
in Israeli peace treaty, ref1, ref2, ref3
jihad and, ref1
Muslim Brothers in, ref1
political humor in, ref1, ref2
in Six Day War, ref1, ref2
Soviet Union and, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
in Suez Crisis, ref1
in Yom Kippur War, ref1, ref2, ref3
Egyptian University of Cairo, ref1
Eight-Year War (1980), ref1
Eisenhower, Dwight D., ref1, ref2
elections:
in Muslim world, ref1
U.S., of 1976, ref1
Elizabeth II, Queen of England, ref1
Emergence of Modern Turkey, The (Lewis), ref1, ref2, ref3
empathy, as Western trait, ref1
Encounter, ref1, ref2
Encyclopaedia Britannica, ref1
Encyclopedia of Islam, ref1
England:
church and state in, ref1
education in, ref1, ref2, ref3
intellectual freedom in, ref1, ref2
Jews in, ref1
wartime shortages in, ref1
see also Great Britain
“Enough Said” (Pryce-Jones), ref1
Ethiopia, ref1, ref2, ref3
ethnicity, ethnic studies, ref1, ref2, ref3
Europe:
anti-Semitism in, ref1, ref2
Muslim discovery of, ref1
Muslim invasions of, ref1
Muslims in, ref1, ref2
secularization of, ref1
see also West
European Union, ref1
Evening Standard (London), ref1
Express, L’, ref1
Faisal, King of Saudi Arabia, ref1
Faris, Nabih, ref1
Farouk, King of Egypt, ref1
Fatah, ref1
Fatimid period, ref1
> fatwas, ref1
Festschrifts, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Figaro, Le (Paris), ref1
Finkelstein, Norman G., ref1
food and meals:
and dietary laws, ref1, ref2
history of, ref1
in Middle East, ref1
Foreign Affairs, ref1, ref2
Foreign Office, British, ref1, ref2, ref3
Forum of Armenian Associations, ref1, ref2
France, ref1, ref2
Armenian massacre lawsuit in, ref1
imperialism of, ref1, ref2, ref3
Muslim invasion of, ref1, ref2
Nazi occupation of, ref1, ref2
France, Anatole, ref1
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, ref1
freedom:
intellectual, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Islamic vs. Western view of, ref1
Free French, ref1
French language, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
French Popular Front, ref1
Fukuyama, Francis, ref1
“Fundamentalism,” misuse of, ref1
Fundamentals, The, ref1
Gaddafi, Muammar, ref1
Gamasi, Mohamed Abdel-Ghani al-, ref1
Gandhi, Mohandas K., ref1
Gayssot law, ref1, ref2
Gaza, ref1
Gdańsk, ref1
Genizah collection, ref1
George Polk Award, ref1
German language, ref1
Germany, ref1, ref2, ref3
Muslims in, ref1
Germany, Federal Republic of (West Germany), ref1
Germany, Nazi, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Holocaust and, ref1, ref2
intelligence service of, ref1
Japanese treaty with, ref1
Middle East and, ref1, ref2
Ghorbal, Shafiq, ref1
Gibb, Sir Hamilton A. R., ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
Gibbon, Edward, ref1
Goitein, S. D., ref1
Golan Heights, ref1, ref2
Goldenberg, David, ref1
Goldmann, Nahum, ref1
Gottesman Lectures, ref1
Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, ref1, ref2
Great Britain:
Egypt and, ref1, ref2
Middle East and, ref1, ref2
naturalized citizens in, ref1
Palestine and, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Turkish cultural relations with, ref1
see also British Empire; England
Greece, Nazi occupation of, ref1, ref2
Greek language, ref1, ref2, ref3
Grobba, Fritz, ref1
Grodno, ref1
Gulf states, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
hadith, ref1
Hadley, Stephen, ref1
Haifa, ref1
Haifa Technion, ref1
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