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The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World CYRUS SCHAYEGH Cambridge, Mas sa chu setts, and London, England 2017 Copyright © 2017 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of Amer i ca First printing Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Names: Schayegh, Cyrus, author. Title: The Middle East and the making of the modern world / Cyrus Schayegh. Description: Cambridge, Mas sa chu setts : Harvard University Press, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2017001309 | ISBN 9780674088337 (alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Middle East— History—1517- | Human geography— Middle East. | Rural- urban relations— Middle East— History. | Civilization, Western— Middle Eastern influences. Classification: LCC DS62.4 .S33 2017 | DDC 956— dc23 LC rec ord available at https:// lccn. loc. gov /2 017001309 Jacket image: Sa‘id Sabbāgh’s unified region. Sa‘id Sabbāgh, Jughrāfiyyat Suriyya al-‘Umumiyya al-Mufassala (Sidon: Matba‘at al-‘Irfān, 1923), 28. To Dalia and Leo and to Tsolin CONTENTS MAP 1 Ottoman Greater Syria, 1888 to World War I viii MAP 2 Railroads in Greater Syria, 1914 ix MAP 3 Greater Syria in the Mandate Period x Introduction 1 PRELUDE 1 Khalil Sakakini Has a Dream 28 1 Rise of an Urban Patchwork Region 1830s–1914 34 PRELUDE 2 Rafiq al- Tamimi and Muhammad Bahjat Make a Tour 92 2 Crucible of War 1914–1918 96 PRELUDE 3 Alfred Sursock Keeps Busy 124 3 Ottoman Twilight 1918–1929 132 PRELUDE 4 Hauranis Migrate to Palestine 192 4 Toward a Region of Nation- States 1929–1939 200 PRELUDE 5 Eliahu Rabino’s War 266 5 Empire Redux 1939–1945 272 POSTSCRIPT The More Things Change 1945–2017 315 Conclusion 327 Abbreviations 349 Notes 351 Acknowledgments 469 Index 473
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