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Authors: Bernard Lewis

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There are several useful handbooks dealing with different aspects of modem Middle Eastern history. These include Jere L. Bachrach, A Middle East Studies Handbook, 2nd ed. (Seattle and London, 1984); Robert Mantrap, Les Grandes Dates de ]'Islam (Paris, 1990); Magali Morsy, Lexique du monde arabe moderne (Paris, 1986); Justin McCarthy, The Arab World, Turkey and the Balkans (1878-1914): A Handbook of Historical Statistics (Boston, 1982); Lawrence Ziring, The Middle East: A Political Dictionary (Santa Barbara, Denver, and Oxford, 1992); and William C. Brice, An Historical Atlas of Islam (Leiden, 1981). The structure of Arab and Muslim personal names is explained in Annemarie Schimmel, Islamic Names (Edinburgh, 1989), and Jacqueline Sublet, Le Voile du nom: Essai sur le nom propre arabe (Paris, 1991(.

A considerable body of modern Middle Eastern writing is now available in English and French-scholarly and ideological literature, as well as fiction and poetry, translated from Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Hebrew. A representative selection from the first three of these languages is presented in Kemal H. Karpat, Political and Social Thought in the Contemporary Middle East (London, 1968).

 

Index

Arabic names are indexed in the form in which they are most familiar in the West. Generally, names from earlier periods are indexed under the given or first name, while more current persons are found under the last name.

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