Notes on a Century: Reflections of A Middle East Historian
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as honor/shame society, ref1
humor in, ref1, ref2
Jews in, ref1, ref2, ref3
migration and changing demography of, ref1, ref2, ref3
non-Muslims in, ref1
patriotism and nationalism as secondary to religion in, ref1, ref2
race and slavery in, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
renewed sense of Islamic identity in, ref1, ref2
secularism in, ref1, ref2, ref3
sexuality in, ref1
significance of religion in, ref1
technological change in, ref1
unbelievers seen as single entity in, ref1
women’s emancipation in, ref1, ref2
see also Middle East
Mussolini, Benito, ref1
Mutual Assured Destruction (M.A.D.), ref1
Nabulus, ref1
Nakashima, George, ref1
Nasser, Gamel Abdel, ref1, ref2, ref3
Nation, ref1
National Endowment for the Humanities, ref1
nationalism, ref1, ref2
NATO, ref1, ref2
negationism, ref1
Netanyahu, Benjamin, ref1, ref2
Netherlands, ref1
New Criterion, ref1
New Delhi, ref1
New Yorker, The, ref1, ref2
New York Times, The, ref1
Nicolson, Harold, ref1
Nixon, Richard M., ref1
Noor, Queen of Jordan, ref1, ref2
North Africa, ref1, ref2
Nuqrashi Pasha, ref1
Oath of Loyalty, ref1
Official Secrets Act, ref1
oil, ref1, ref2
Oman, ref1, ref2
On the Blood (Tchernikhovsky), ref1
Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), ref1
Orientalism (Said), ref1, ref2
Orientalists, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Said’s attack on, ref1, ref2
Soviet, ref1
use of term, ref1
“Orientals,” use of term, ref1
Origins of Isma‘ilism, The (Lewis), ref1, ref2
orthodoxies, ref1, ref2
Oshima, General, ref1
Oslo agreement, ref1, ref2
Otranto, ref1
Ottoman archives, ref1, ref2, ref3
Ottoman Empire, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12
study of, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Ottoman Turkish, ref1
Oxford University, ref1
Oxford University Press, ref1, ref2
Özal, Turgut, ref1
Pakistan, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
East, see Bangladesh
Palestine, ref1
as British Mandate, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
history of, ref1, ref2
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Palestinian-Israeli conflict, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
Oslo agreement and, ref1, ref2
Papen, Franz von, ref1
Paris, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Parliament, Jews in, ref1
Pashto, ref1
patriotism, Muslims and, ref1
Penguin Book of Turkish Verse, The, ref1
Peres, Simon, ref1, ref2
Persian, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Persian Empire, ref1
Philadelphia Committee on Foreign Relations, ref1
Philip, Prince, Duke of Edinburgh, ref1
Plastiras, General Nikolaos, ref1
poetry:
of BL, ref1, ref2, ref3
BL’s translations of, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
as historical documents, ref1
Poland, ref1, ref2
political correctness, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
politics, Islamic approach to, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Polytechnic London Day School, ref1, ref2, ref3
Portugal, Muslim conquest of, ref1, ref2
Power, Eileen, ref1
Powicke, Sir Maurice, ref1
Princeton, N.J., ref1, ref2
Princeton University, ref1, ref2
BL on faculty of, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
Princeton University Press, ref1, ref2
Protestant Fundamentalism, ref1
Pryce-Jones, David, ref1
Punjab, University of, ref1, ref2
Pushkin, ref1
Qatar, ref1
Rabin, Yitzhak, ref1, ref2, ref3
race:
in Muslim world, ref1, ref2, ref3
use of term, ref1
Race and Color in Islam (Lewis), ref1, ref2, ref3
Race and Slavery in the Middle East (Lewis), ref1, ref2
Rania, Queen of Jordan, ref1
Ranke, Leopold von, ref1
Rawidowicz, Simon, ref1
Reagan, Ronald, ref1
religion, relativism vs. triumphalism in, ref1
Republican Guard, Iraqi, ref1
research, teaching vs., ref1
retirement, compulsory, ref1, ref2
“Return of Islam, The” (Lewis), ref1, ref2
“Revolt of Islam, The” (Lewis), ref1
Rice, Condoleezza, ref1
Riyad, ref1, ref2
Rokeah, David, ref1
Roman Empire, ref1, ref2
Romania, ref1
Roman law, ref1
“Roots of Muslim Rage, The” (Lewis), ref1
Rothschilds, ref1
Royal Anthropological Institute, ref1
Royal Asian Society traveling fellowship, ref1
Royal Danish Library, ref1
Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), ref1, ref2, ref3
Royal Netherlands Academy, ref1
Russia, ref1, ref2, ref3
see also Soviet Union
Russian language, ref1
Rutgers University, ref1
Sadat, Anwar, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Safed, ref1, ref2
Said, Edward, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
St. Louis, Mo., ref1
St. Paul’s (girls’ school), ref1
Saudi Arabia, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Sauvaget, Jean, ref1
Schlegel, Friedrich, ref1
Schneur, Zalman, ref1
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
see also London, University of
School of Slavonic and East European Studies, ref1
scriptures, Muslim vs. Judeo-Christian view of, ref1
Selassie, Haile, Emperor of Ethiopia, ref1
Semites and Anti-Semites (Lewis), ref1
Senate, U.S., ref1, ref2
Foreign Relations Committee of, ref1
see also Congress, U.S.
Senegalese, ref1
Senussi, Abdullah, ref1
September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, ref1, ref2
Seton-Watson, R. W., ref1
sexuality, in Muslim world, ref1
Shafiq, Muhammad, ref1
Shaping of the Modern Middle East, The (Lewis), ref1
Shari‘a (Islamic Holy Law), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Sharm el-Sheikh, ref1
Shi‘a Islam, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Sicily, Muslim conquest of, ref1, ref2
Silay, Kemal, ref1
Sinai peninsula, ref1, ref2
Singapore, ref1, ref2
Six Day War (1967), ref1, ref2, ref3
slavery:
in Muslim world, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
in U.S., ref1
social engineering, ref1
social sciences, and study of history, ref1, ref2, ref3
Somalia, ref1
South Asia, Muslims in, ref1
South Hampstead School for Girls, ref1
Soviet Union, ref1
Afghanistan invaded by, ref1, ref2, ref3
anti-American propaganda spread by, ref1
collapse of, ref1, ref2
critiques of Islam in, ref1, ref2
Egypt and, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
historians and, ref1
Muslim republics of, ref1
Nazi invasion of, ref1
Orientalists in, ref1
Turkey and, ref1
see also Cold War; Russia
Spain:
expulsion of Jews from, ref1
Mexico conquered by, ref1
Muslim conquest of, ref1, ref2
Spanish Civil War, ref1
Spanish language, ref1
Sri Lanka (Ceylon), ref1
Stern, Isaac, ref1
Stimson, Henry, ref1
Stone, Lawrence, ref1
Sudan, ref1
Suez Canal, ref1, ref2, ref3
Suez Crisis (1956), ref1, ref2
Sunna, ref1
Sunni Islam, ref1, ref2
Sybel, Heinrich von, ref1
Syria, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Assassins in, ref1
Islamic revival in, ref1
Isma‘ilis in, ref1, ref2, ref3
Israel and, ref1, ref2
in Six Day War, ref1
Syria-Lebanon (French Mandate), ref1
taboos, ref1, ref2, ref3
Talmud, ref1
Tanzania, U.S. Embassy bombing in, ref1
Tchernikhovsky, Shaul, ref1, ref2
teaching:
political correctness and, ref1
research vs., ref1
and students’ lack of general knowledge, ref1
technological change, ref1
Tehran, ref1, ref2, ref3
U.S. Embassy in, ref1
Tel Aviv, ref1, ref2, ref3
Tel Aviv University, ref1
tenure, ref1
terrorists, terrorism, ref1, ref2
Assassins as, ref1, ref2, ref3
see also Islamic extremism
Thatcher, Margaret, ref1, ref2
theology, study of history vs., ref1, ref2
thesis, hypothesis vs., ref1
Ti Amo di due Amori (I Love You with Two Loves) (Lewis, ed.), ref1
Times, The (London), ref1
Tokyo, ref1
tolerance, ref1
translations:
art of, ref1
of BL’s books, ref1, ref2, ref3
of Hebrew Bible, ref1, ref2
of Koran, ref1
of original sources, ref1
of poetry, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Tripoli, ref1
Tunisia, ref1, ref2, ref3
Turkey, modern, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Armenian massacres in, ref1
BL’s history of, ref1
British cultural relations with, ref1
linguistic reforms in, ref1
Muslim emigrants from, ref1
in NATO, ref1, ref2
1950 election in, ref1, ref2
secularism in, ref1
Soviet Union and, ref1
women’s emancipation in, ref1
in World War II, ref1, ref2, ref3
Turkic languages, ref1
Turkish, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
Turkish Academy of Sciences, ref1
Turkish Revolution, ref1
Turner, Ralph, ref1
XXV Congress of Orientalists, ref1
“Typewriter, The” (Lewis), ref1
Udovitch, Avrom, ref1
Uighur Turkish, ref1
‘Umar, Muhammad Mahmud, ref1
UNESCO, ref1
Union of the Militant Godless, ref1
United Nations, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
United States:
anti-Semitism in, ref1
Armenian community in, ref1
BL’s first visit to, ref1
education in, ref1
Fundamentalism in, ref1
intellectual freedom in, ref1, ref2
Iran policy of, ref1, ref2
Jews in, ref1
Middle Eastern policy of, ref1, ref2
naturalized citizens in, ref1
perceived impotence of, ref1, ref2, ref3
see also Cold War; Iraq War, First; Iraq War, Second; West
University College, ref1
Urdu, ref1
Vatican, Israel and, ref1
Vatikiotis, Taki, ref1
Venice, ref1
Vichy, ref1, ref2
Vienna, ref1
Vietnam War, ref1
von Grunebaum, Gustave, ref1
Wahba, Hafiz, ref1
Wahhabism, ref1
Waldman, Peter, ref1
Walesa, Lech, ref1
Wall Street Journal, The, ref1, ref2
War Office, British, ref1
Washington, D.C., ref1, ref2
Wellhausen, Julius, ref1
West:
anti-Semitism in, ref1
as duty/guilt society, ref1
Middle Eastern relations with, ref1
Muslim resentment of, ref1, ref2
secularism in, ref1
value system of, ref1
wrong message sent by, ref1
see also Europe; United States
What Went Wrong? (Lewis), ref1
Wilson College, ref1
Wolf, Harry, ref1
women:
education of, ref1, ref2
emancipation of, ref1
Wood, Al, ref1
World Affairs Council of Philadelphia, ref1
World Jewish Congress, ref1
World Trade Center:
9/11 attack on, ref1, ref2
1993 bombing of, ref1
World War I, ref1, ref2, ref3
World War II, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Yale University, ref1
Yariv, Arele, ref1
Yemen, ref1, ref2
Yeshiva University, ref1
Yiddish, ref1
Yom Kippur War (1973), ref1, ref2
York, Archbishop of, ref1
Zakani, ‘Ubayd-i, ref1
Zangwill, Israel, ref1
Zayid, Mahmud, ref1
List of Illustrations
1. My beloved maternal grandmother, Annie, age thirty-seven, 1914.
2. My mother, age eighteen.
3. Grandfather Joseph, my father, my mother’s younger sister Betty, my mother, and her mother (left to right) on my parents’ wedding day, 1915.
4. Me, about eighteen months, 1917.
5. Dressed in a borrowed outfit in Syria in 1938 while I was a graduate student working on my thesis on the Isma‘ilis.
6. With my mother and a fellow soldier in 1944. During the war I served in British intelligence and spent much of my time decrypting messages in London.
7. With my parents in London in 1944.
8. With Melanie in 1955 in the park outside our flat in London.
9. My children, Melanie (five) and Michael (three), in the Swiss Cottage neighborhood of London where we lived for thirteen years.
10. With Senator Henry “Scoop” Jackson in his office on one of my first forays to Washington. The inscription reads, “With appreciation for your superb testimony before my committee. Sincerely, Henry M. Jackson, March 17, 1971.”
11. Greeting the Shah of Iran in the early 1970s. The Shah expressed his frustration at how he was treated by the Western press.
12. With King Hussein of Jordan in the desert in the 1970s. I was already acquainted with his brother, Prince Hassan, whom I had met at a conference of historians in Amman and who introduced me to King Hussein.
13. With Crown Prince Hassan of Jordan in the mid-1970s on one of my annual trips to Jordan.
14. A portrait from 1973, shortly before my move from SOAS to Princeton.
15. With Teddy Kollek (far right), who would become the longest serving mayor of Jerusalem and who would become a good friend in the late 1970s.
16. During an Iraqi scud missile attack
on Tel Aviv in 1991.
17. With Turgut Özal (right), president of Turkey, in 1992. I first met Özal when he was a young parliamentarian and he came to visit me once at Princeton. Like many Turks, he was intensely interested in history.
18. One of the small gatherings at Castel Gandolfo to which I was invited by Pope John Paul II (left) in the mid-1990s. I’m on the far right.
19. With Pope John Paul II at the Vatican in 1996. He was one of the finest people I have met in my long life.
20. With Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995, shortly before he was assassinated.
21. With Buntzie after I received an honorary doctorate from Princeton in 2002.
22. With Vice President Dick Cheney in his office in 2003.
23. Buntzie and I had a wonderful time at the Allen & Company conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, in 2004. It’s an annual retreat for Hollywood moguls and Wall Street tycoons.
1. My beloved maternal grandmother, Annie, age thirty-seven, 1914.
2. My mother, age eighteen.
3. Grandfather Joseph, my father, my mother’s younger sister Betty, my mother, and her mother (left to right) on my parents’ wedding day, 1915.
4. Me, about eighteen months, 1917.
5. Dressed in a borrowed outfit in Syria in 1938 while I was a graduate student working on my thesis on the Isma‘ilis.
6. With my mother and a fellow soldier in 1944. During the war I served in British intelligence and spent much of my time decrypting messages in London.
7. With my parents in London in 1944.
8. With Melanie in 1955 in the park outside our flat in London.
9. My children, Melanie (five) and Michael (three), in the Swiss Cottage neighborhood of London where we lived for thirteen years.
10. With Senator Henry “Scoop” Jackson in his office on one of my first forays to Washington. The inscription reads, “With appreciation for your superb testimony before my committee. Sincerely, Henry M. Jackson, March 17, 1971.”
11. Greeting the Shah of Iran in the early 1970s. The Shah expressed his frustration at how he was treated by the Western press.
12. With King Hussein of Jordan in the desert in the 1970s. I was already acquainted with his brother, Prince Hassan, whom I had met at a conference of historians in Amman and who introduced me to King Hussein.
13. With Crown Prince Hassan of Jordan in the mid-1970s on one of my annual trips to Jordan.
14. A portrait from 1973, shortly before my move from SOAS to Princeton.