INDEX
Page numbers in italic indicate tables and figures.| Abbas 1, 147 | |
| Abbasid Caliphate, 14, 15 | |
| Abbott, James, 261n31 | |
| Abdullah I (Jordan), 43 | |
| Abru, Hafiz, 145 | |
| Academic specialties: area studies and, 49, 60–62; regional geography, 56 | |
| Afghanistan: atlases and maps, 87, 90, 92; defining the “Middle East” and, 68, 69, 73, 78, 83, 84, 86, 91, 92, 94; “Eastern Question” and, 12; Middle East / Central Asia boundary and, 140, 142, 148; Soviet Union and, 50; U.S. terminology and usage, 51 | |
| Africa: atlases and maps, 85, 86–87; defining the “Middle East” and, 83, 113. See also Maghrib, the; North Africa | |
| African Studies Association, 60 | |
| “African Transition Zone,” 82 | |
| Afro-Asian lands, 244n15 | |
| Agnew, John, 211, 212 | |
| Agriculture, 171, 177, 178–79, 266n12 | |
| Ahl (people), 165 | |
| Ahmad Pasha, 160 | |
| Ajami, Fouad, 220 | |
| Al ‘Azm, Sadiq Jalal, 120 | |
| Algeria, 104, 110–11, 114, 176, 177–80, 186 | |
| Algerian Forest Law, 179–80 | |
| Algiers Non-Aligned Summit (1973), 197, 198 | |
| Al-Iraq, 14–15 | |
| Al-sharq al-aqsa (Far East). See Aqsa al-sharq (Far East) | |
| Al-Sharq al-Awsat (Middle East), 15, 101, 116 | |
| American Committee for Relief in the Near East, 28 | |
| American exceptionalism, 210 | |
| Ancient civilizations: the “Nearer East” and, 23; the Orient and, 120–21; Roman Empire, 177, 178–79, 266n12; the “Near and Middle East,” 26 | |
| Anderson, Ewan W., 71, 91–92, 252n46 | |
| Anderson, Liam D., 71, 91–92 | |
| Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907, 41 | |
| Anthropology, area studies and, 60 | |
| Anti-Westernism, 29 | |
| Apocalyptic literature, 12, 16, 125, 137 | |
| Aqsa al-sharq (Far East), 15 | |
| Arab exceptionalism. See Middle East exceptionalism | |
| Arab Human Development Reports (AHDRs), 218–20, 225, 226–27, 228 | |
| Arabian Peninsula, 5, 22, 73, 82, 83 | |
| Arabic language, 109, 115, 235 | |
| Arab-Israeli conflict, 51–52, 102, 214 | |
| Arab League, 255n26 | |
| Arab Maghrib Union (AMU), 111 | |
| Arab nationalism. See Nationalism | |
| Arab peoples, 18–86; defining the “Middle East” and, 78, 235–36; the Levant and, 181–86; the Maghrib and, 104, 176, 177–80; Maghribi nationalism and, 110 |
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Book title: Is There a Middle East?The Evolution of a Geopolitical Concept.
Contributors: Michael E. Bonine - Editor, Abbas Amanat - Editor, Michael Ezekiel Gasper - Editor.
Publisher: Stanford University Press.
Place of publication: Stanford, CA.
Publication year: 2012.
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