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Middle Eastern Politics and Ideas Middle Eastern Politics and Ideas A History from Within Edited by Ilan Pappé and Moshe Ma'oz In loving memory of Albert Hourani A mentor, a colleague and above all a friend Published in 1997 by Tauris Academic Studies An imprint of I.B. Tauris &c Co. Ltd Victoria House Bloomsbuiy Square London WC1 4DZ 175 Fifth Avenue New York NY 10010 In the United States of America and in Canada distributed by St Martin’s Press 175 Fifth Avenue New York NY 10010 Copyright © 1997 Moshe Ma’oz and Ilan Pappé All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book or any part thereof, may not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. A full CIP record for this book is available from the British Library A full CIP record for this book is available from the Library of Congress ISBN 1 86064 012 5 Typeset in Adobe Caslon by Hepton Books, Oxford Printed and bound in Great Britain by Bookcraft, Bath Ltd Contents Acknowledgements Introduction 1 1 Albert Hourani the Historian Roger Owen 7 2 The Return of the East: Muhammad Husayn Haykal’s Recantation of Positivism, 1927-1930 Israel Gersboni 21 3 Albert Hourani and Orientalism Gaby Piterberg 75 4 A Rare Testimony: Albert Hourani and the Anglo- American Committee, 1946 Amikam Nachmani 89 5 The Emergence of Ottoman-Local Elites (1700- 1900): A Framework for Research Ehud Toledano 145 6 From the 'Politics of Notables’ to the 'Politics of Nationalism’: The Husayni Family, 1840-1922 Ihm Pappé 163 7 Attempts to Create a Political Community in Modem Syria Moshe Ma'oz 209 Index 229 Acknowledgements The editors wish to thank the Truman Institute for peace at the Hebrew University in Jersusalem for sponsoring the conference at which, for the first time, these papers were presented and for its generous financial assistance in covering the cost of editing and stylizing. We are also in great debt to Dick Bruggeman for his invaluable editorial assistance and to Anna Enayat who helped and encouraged us throughout the work that went into the publication of this volume. Notes on the Contributers Israel Gershoni is professor of Middle Eastern History at Tel Aviv University. He has published widely on the intellectual history of the modern Middle East. His latest book (with James P. Janowski) is Redefining the Egyptian Nation 1930-1945, (Cambridge University Press 1995). Moshe Maoz is the director of the Truman Institute for Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a full professor at the department for the History of the Islamic Lands at the same university. His publications include Asad: the Sphinx of Damascus (London, 1988) and Palestinian Leadership on the West Bank (London, 1984). Ahmad Nachmani is a senior lecturer at the department of political studies at Bar Ilan University, Israel. His books include Great Power Discord in Palestine: the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry into the Problems of European Jewry and Palestine: 1945-1946. His latest book is International Intervention in the Greek Civil War: the United Nations Special Committee on the Balkans, 1947-1952 (New York 1990). Roger Owen is professor of Middle East History at Harvard University and author of State, Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East (London, 1992) and The Middle East in the WorldEconomy (London, 1993). Ilan Pappé is a senior lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Haifa University and academic head of the Institute for Peace Research in Israel. He is the author of Britain and the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1948-1951 (1988) and The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1947-1951 (1992). He is the co-editor of Jordan: The Making of a Pivotal State (1995). x
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