The Middle East in Transition: Studies in Contemporary History

Table of contents

• Contributors ii
• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• List of Contributors ix
• Part One - Social and Political Change 1
• Social Reform : Factor X - The Search for an Islamic Democracy 3
• Arab Unity and Arab Dissensions 12
• Economic and Social Foundations of Democracy in the Middle East 33
• Social Awakening and Economic Development in the Middle East 52
• The Middle Class in the Arab World 61
• Middle Eastern Development -- Another Missing Link 72
• Egyptian Attitudes Towards Land Reform, 1922-1955 80
• Pan-Arabism and British Policy 100
• The Great Catastrophe 112
• Political Trends in the Fertile Crescent 121
• The Ideology of the Egyptian Revolution - Its Evolution with the Course of Events 129
• Arab Nationalism - In Search of an Ideology 145
• Sudanese Nationalism and Self-Determination 166
• Turkey and the Middle East 187
• Ideological Crisis in Iran 196
• The Origins of Israel 204
• Levant Dusk: the Refugee Situation 222
• The Arab Refugees: A Study in Frustration 232
• Development in Iraq - Part I 256
• Part II - From 'the Economist' 264
• Islam and the Theory of Arab Nationalism 280
• Part Two - Communism. the Soviet Union, and the Middle East 309
• Communism and Islam 311
• Syria: Nationalism and Communism 325
• The Arab Socialist Movement 337
• The Islamic Community and Communism 351
• The 'National Front' - In Communist Strategy in the Middle East 360
• Recent Soviet Attitudes Towards Islam 370
• Soviet Cultural Propaganda in the Near and Middle East 378
• The Background of Soviet Policy in the Middle East 388
• Sultan Galiev - The U.S.S.R. and the Colonial Revolution 398
• The Shamil Problem 415
• Nationalism and Communism in the Arab World: A Re-Appraisal 444
• The Future of Culture in Arab Society 462
• The Egyptian Intelligentsia 478
• Two Soviet Views on the Middle East 487
• II - The Revolution of July, 1952, in Egypt 497
• Index 503

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