Middle East Historiographies: Narrating the Twentieth Century

349 Pages·2006·40.675 MB·English

by  Israel Gershoni, Amy Singer

Middle East Historiographies

Middle E.ast Historiographies
NARRATING THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Edited by
Israe1 Gershoni
Amy Singer
Y Hakan Erdem
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Middle east historiographies: narrating the Twentieth Century I
edited by Israel Gershoni, Amy Singer, Y. Hakan Erdem.
p. em.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-295-98604-2 (pbk.: alk. paper)
1. Middle East-Histo.riography.
2. Middle East-HistorY-2Oth century.
I. Gershoni,1. II. Singer, Amy. III. Erdem, Y. Hakan.
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Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS VII
Introduction 3
ISRAEL GERSHONI AND AMY SINGER
1 I The Historiography of the Modern Middle East:
Transforming a Field of Study 19
R. STePHEN HUMPHREYS
21 The Historiography of World War I and the
Emergence of the Contempolary Middle East 39
CHARLES D. SMITH
3 I Twentieth-Century Historians and Historiography
of the Middle East: Women, Gender, and Empire 70
JULIA CLANCY-SMITH
41 Reading Genocide: Turkish Historiography on the
Armenian Deportations and Massacres of 1915 101
PATMA MUGe: GO(:tK
5 I The Theory of Crisis and the Crisis in a Theory:
Intellectual History in Twentieth-Century
Middle Eastern Studies 131
ISRAH GERSHONI
6/ The Historiography of Crisis in the
Egyptian Political Economy 183
ELLIS GOLDBERG
7/ On Gender, History, ... and Fiction 211
MARILYN BOOTH
8 J Will That Subaltern Ever Speak? Finding African
Slaves in the Historiography of the Middle East 242
EVE M. TROUTT POWELL
9 J Muslim Religious Extremism in Egypt:
A Historiographical Critique of Narratives 262
JUAN R. I. COLf.
10 / Audiovisual Media and
History of the Arab Middle East 288
WALTER ARMBRUST
GLOSSARY 315
CONTRIBUTORS 317
INDEX 321
Acknowledgments
T
his book is the second volume of a collaborative project sponsored
by the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, Bogazicri University (Istanbul), and the Chaim Herzog
Center for Middle East Studies and Diplomacy at Ben Gurion University of
the Negev. We extend our sincere thanks to these institutions for their finan
cial support and encouragement. In particular, we recognize the hospitality
of Bogazicri University and the Bogazicri University Foundation (BUV AK)
in hosting the workshop "Twentieth-Century Historians and Historio
graphies of the Middle East," from which the present collection evolved.
For their intellectual contributions, their insights and critiques, our thanks
go to the authors included in this volume and to the other participants in
the workshop: Iris Agmon, Beth Baron, Joel Beinin, Ha1il Berktay, Selcruk
Esenbel, Hairn Gerber, Joel Gordon, Jane Hathaway, Gun Kut, Afsaneh
Najmabadi, tIber Ortayb, ~vket Pamuk, Han Pappe, Leslie Peirce, Haggai
Ram, Andre Raymond, Yezid Sayigh, Tal Shoval, Dror Ze'evi, and Sami
Zubaida. A separate collection of articles on Ottoman historians and his
toriographies was published as a special issue of Mediterranean Historical
Review (vol. 19, no. 1, [20041), including the contributions by Peirce, Hath
away, Raymond, and Ze'evi.
We have incurred many personal debts to people who provided intel
lectual and material support over the course of this project: Ariel Weiss;
B. Z. Kedar, head of the Institute for Advanced Studies; and Dror Ze'evi,
former director of the Herzog Center. Geoffrey Harpham, president and
director, and Kent Mullikin, deputy director of the National Humanities
Center (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina), provided a supportive
environment in the final stages of preparing the volume. The staffs of these
VII
VIII ACKNOWLeDGMeNTS
institutions, particularly Pnina Feldman at the Institute for Advanced Stud
ies, Dvora Kremer at the Herzog Center, Lois Whittington at the National
Humanities Center, and Ayala Lavie at Tel Aviv University, helped us to
manage the administrative aspects of this endeavor as painlessly as possible.
Our sincere thanks are offered to Ursula Wokock, Susynne McElrone,
Avi Mor, and Sylvie Kraus at Tel Aviv University for their sound editorial
advice and production assistance. Karen Carroll provided meticulous and
ongoing editorial assistance at the National Humanities Center.
This volume has benefited greatly from the professional guidance of the
editorial staff at the University of Washington Press. Our sincere thanks to
Michael Duckworth, Mary Ribesky, and Jane Lichty for helping to bring
this project to print.
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