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• The survival of Roman Family Law after the Barbarian Settlement
• Spoiling the Egyptians: Roman Law and Christian Exegesis in Late Antiquity
• Judicial Violence and the Ecclesiastical Courts in Late Antique North Africa
• The Development of Syriac Christian Canon Law in the Sassanian Empire
• Lawyers and Historians in Late Antiquity
• Virgins and Widows, Show-girls and Whores: Late Roman Legislation on Women and Christianity
• Resolving Disputes: The Frontiers of Law in Late Antiquity
• The Legacy of Roman Law in Post-Roman Britain
• Evidence for the Audientia Episcopalis in the New Letters of Augustine
• Imperial Honorifics and Senatorial Status in Late Roman Legal Documents
• Interpreting the Interpretationes of the Breviarium
• Salic Law and Barbarian Diet.
• Canonists Construct the Nun?: Church Law and Wonen's Monastic Practice in Merovingian France
• The Farmer, the Landlord, and the Law in the Fifth Century
• Why not Marry a Jew? Jewish-Christian Marital Frontiers in Late Antiquity
• Lex and Iussio: The Feriale Campanum and Christianity in the Theodosian Age.
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The sixteen papers in this volume investigate the links between law and society during Late Antiquity (260-640 CE). On the one hand, they consider how social changes such as the barbarian settlement and the rise of the Christian church resulted in the creation of new sources of legal authority, such as local and 'vulgar' law, barbarian law codes, and canon law. On the other, they investigate the interrelationship between legal innovations and social change, for the very process of creating new law and new authority either resulted from or caused changes in the society in which it occurred. The studies in this volume discuss interactions between legal theory and practice, the Greek east and the Roman west, secular and ecclesiastical, Roman and barbarian, male and female, and Christian and non-Christian (including pagans, Jews, and Zoroastrians).
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• I. HISTORY AND PERSPECTIVES
• 1 The Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East Colbert C. Held and John Thomas Cummings Within its regional unity, the Middle East possesses great cultural diversity. Differences of language, religion, and ethnicity create a complex mosaic of peoples.
• 2 The Roots of Arab Bitterness Arthur Goldschmidt Jr. and Lawrence Davidson Varieties of Arab nationalism all share a consistent distrust of the West, based on bitter historical experience.
• 3 Islamist Perceptions of US Policy in the Middle East Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad Islamism is a worldview in which the US support for Israel in particular is understood to be part of a larger Western effort to keep Muslim states weak and subservient.
• 4 Global Energy and the Middle East Steve Yetiv Access to Middle East oil will become even more critical as oil supplies dwindle, even as the region's flow of oil is vulnerable to several sources of major disruption.
• 5 New US Policies for a New Middle East? William B. Quandt The Bush administration's ambitious plan to remake the Middle East fell short and left the United States facing many obstacles in pursuit of its goals in the region.
• 6 Cairo Speech Barack Obama President Obama seeks a "new beginning" by addressing sources of tension between the United States and the Muslims of the world. II. ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIANS
• 7 Israel and the Arabs, and Beyond Robert O. Freedman Israel has battled Arab states since its founding and now faces a threat beyond the Arab world in Iran, which backs Hezbollah and Hamas, two militant enemies of Israel.
• 8 The United States and Israel Bernard Reich and Shannon Powers Broad support of Israel by the United States is accompanied by disagreements on many specifics of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
• 9 The Palestinians Glenn E. Robinson Contradictory promises to Jews and Palestinian Arabs set the stage for inevitable conflict following the 1948 establishment of Israel.
• 10 Sharon's Fence Idith Zertal and Akiva Eldar Ariel Sharon's "security fence, " new settlements, and unilateral withdrawal from Gaza were designed to deepen Israel's hold on the West Bank.
• 11 Whither the Palestinians? Samih K. Farsoun and Naseer H. Aruri The millions of Palestinian refugees and their right to return are not always represented by those Palestinians in Israel and the occupied territories.
• 12 Ethnicity and Nation-Building in the State of Israel Calvin Goldscheider Israel's pluralistic society is shaped by Jewish communities outside the State of Israel as well as by Palestinians within territories administered by Israel.
• 13 Syria's Threat to Israel Hirsch Goodman Syria's threat to Israel consists chiefly in its serving as a conduit for Iranian aid to Hamas and Hezbollah.
• 14 The Iranian Nuclear Threat Against Israel Steven R. David Even given scenarios in which Iran might launch a nuclear attack against Israel, or Israel might preemptively strike Iranian facilities, Israel will likely allow Iran to become a nuclear state. III. IRAQ AND IRAN
• 15 Pashtunistan: Afghanistan, Pakistan--and Iraq Stephen Tanner America's battle against the perpetrators of 9/11, Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, was derailed by turning attention to Saddam Hussein and Iraq.
• 16 The Land and People of Modern Iraq Phebe Marr Iraq must contend with the separatist tendencies of Shiite Arabs and Sunni Kurds, who were ruled until recently by a Sunni Arab minority.
• 17 Impacts of the Iraq War James DeFronzo The Iraq War damaged US moral standing internationally, strengthened Hamas and Hezbollah, and established a Shiite-dominated Iraqi government friendly to Iran.
• 18 America's Troubled Moment in the Middle East William L. Cleveland and Martin Bunton In the aftermath of the Iraq War, the policies of Barack Obama toward Iraq and Iran have been surprisingly similar to the policies of George W. Bush.
• 19 Maliki Consolidates Power in Post-Saddam Iraq Phebe Marr Shiite prime minister Nouri al-Maliki shored up his position by steering a secular, nationalist course rather than a sectarian one, and by negotiating America's exit from Iraq.
• 20 The Iranian Revolution and Its Consequences David W. Lesch The Iranian Revolution of 1979 established a Shiite theocracy next door to Saddam Hussein, prompting him to invade Iran and begin the eight-year-long Iran-Iraq War.
• 21 Islamic Republic of Iran: Political Dynamics and Foreign Policy Mark Gasiorowski Iran's political culture contains an undercurrent of distrust of foreigners even as Iranian moderates in particular occasionally reach out to the West.
• 22 Iran's Regional Foreign Policy Manochehr Dorraj The US rebuff of Iran as a member of the "axis of evil" contributed to Iran's strengthened ties with Russia, China, Syria, Hamas, and Hezbollah.
• 23 Iran, Israel, and the United States Scott Ritter The Israeli lobby influences US foreign policy to regard Iran as a regional threat, but the United States would do better to normalize relations with Iran.
• 24 The Iranian Predicament Michael Axworthy The United States rejected Iran's 2003 "Grand Bargain" that would have committed Iran to a two-state solution with Israel and to a peaceful nuclear program. IV. THE ISLAMISTS
• 25 Islamists and Democracy: The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Marwan Bishara The Muslim Brotherhood's history of charitable work translates into strong party organization in post-Mubarak Egypt, even as traditionalists and radicals disagree over the Brotherhood's course.
• 26 Talking to Terrorists: Hamas and Hezbollah Mark Perry Terrorist groups that participate in elections and governments and that have constituencies to answer to, such as Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, can be negotiated with. V. THE ARAB SPRING
• 27 The Arab Spring, 2011 Eugene Rogan The trajectories of the Arab Spring are followed in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen, where longtime rulers were ousted, and in Bahrain and Syria, whose regimes remain in power.
• 28 Egypt: Mubarak and After Arthur Goldschmidt Jr. After the end of Hosni Mubarak's three-decade rule, Egypt's first-ever free national elections resulted in some major surprises.
• 29 Bashar al-Asad, Syria, and the Arab Spring David W. Lesch Despite warning signs, Bashar al-Asad of Syria did not expect the Arab Spring to wash over his country, and he still brutally puts down what he considers to be foreign-inspired uprisings.
• 30 The Arab World at the Intersection of the National and the Transnational James L. Gelvin While certain transnational factors in common made Arab states vulnerable to protest, national variations ensured that the Arab Spring would follow divergent courses. VI. LOOKING FORWARD
• 31 The Contemporary Middle East: Some Questions, Some Answers Shibley Telhami A noted authority addresses questions about Iraq, Iran, the Arab-Israeli conflict, Syria, and Egypt.
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The Contemporary Middle East provides an accessible introduction to the region's most pressing concerns and enduring conflicts. It includes provocative contributions by an impressive array of leading scholars, journalists, and policy advisors. Contributors include notable academic authors Arthur Goldschmidt Jr., the late William L. Cleveland, Shibley Telhami, David W. Lesch, Bernard Reich, and Phebe Marr, complemented by selections from recent general-interest books by Marwan Bishara, Mark Perry, and Eugene Rogan, among others. With twelve new chapters, the third edition is a probing examination of the current affairs of the Middle East. Its multiple readings on strategic pairings of topics (Israel and the Palestinians, Iraq and Iran, Egypt and Syria) illuminate the region's key issues from a variety of perspectives. Part- and chapter-opening summaries help establish background and context, and a new concluding chapter by Shibley Telhami, written specifically for this volume, candidly addresses fundamental questions about the United States and the Middle East today. Student resources include an annotated table of contents, a select bibliography, a glossary, brief biographies of notable persons, a chronology, and a summary of recent events, in addition to numerous maps.
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This wide-ranging book charts the successive transformations of the Middle East, beginning with the two great empires, Roman and Persian, which disputed the Middle East 2000 years ago; the development of monotheism and the spread of Christianity; the rapid rise and spread of Islam over a vast area; the invasion of the Mongol hordes of Ghengis Khan; the rise of the Ottoman Turks in Anatolia, the Mamluks in Egypt and the Safavid shahs in Persia; the peak and decline of the great Ottoman state; the changing balance of power between the Muslim and Christian worlds; and the overwhelming impact, in modern times, of Western ideas and technology, and the attempts to reverse them.
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The young scholars working in Middle Eastern Studies in Great Britain are as diverse as the field itself. This volume brings together ten of these young men and women, all researchers at the cutting edge of their respective fields, which range from medieval literature to contemporary immigration policy. Each work has been selected not only for its empirical contribution but also for its methodology and for its relevance for general readers as well as academics. The history and practice of Middle Eastern Studies as a whole is placed in perspective by the introduction, which also unites the overarching themes found in these chapters. It also looks at the formation, crises, and reforms in Area Studies, which directly impact the circumstances in which all of these scholars are working today. The particular, and sometimes peculiar, history of each field is highlighted by each author, who carefully place their own research in larger contexts. Each introduction at once reveals the forces that have shaped the discipline - whether the study of politics, history, law, literature, art or theology - in the 20th century and considers these forces in terms of the larger trends and ideas that have formed, and continue to form, Middle Eastern Studies as a whole. This book, as timely as it is topical, will prove an indispensable source for readers of all backgrounds.
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• Early days
• The war years
• In the Ottoman archives
• Cultural diplomacy
• Why study history?
• Episodes in an academic life
• Crossing the Atlantic
• The neighborhood
• The clash of civilizations
• Orientalism and the cult of right thinking
• Judgment in Paris
• Writing and rewriting history
• Politics and the Iraq War
• In sum
• Appendix I. The dirge
• Appendix II. Honors and publications.

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Glubb, tribes and Iraq, 1920-1930
• 3. Glubb and Transjordan, 1931-1945
• 4. Glubb, Transjordan and the Palestine mandate, 1946-1949
• 5. Imperial Twilight: Glubb and Jordan, 1950-1956
• 6. Conclusion.
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The Glubb Reports studies papers written by General Sir John Glubb, the long-serving British commander of the Jordanian Arab Legion. It covers issues such as the role of tribes and desert control, the impact of Palestine, the Arab Legion's role in the first Arab-Israeli war, the expansion of the Arab Legion, and Glubb's dismissal in 1956.
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