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Week Four:
September 21: Source Discussion: Decrees from the Ottoman Tanzimat: The Gulhane
Proclamation (1839) and An Ottoman Bill of Rights (1856) (both are on e-reserves)
Lecture: Egypt and Iran in the Late Nineteenth Century
Readings: Cleveland, 103-117.
September 24: Source Discussion: The Earl of Cromer:
Why Britain Acquired Egypt in 1882, (1908) (@
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1908cromer.asp)
Lecture: The Response of Islamic Society
Readings: Cleveland, 119-132
Week Five:
September 28: MAP QUIZ (study the Middle East Map and Middle East Capitals @
http://www.ilike2learn.com/ilike2learn/MidEast.html) (15 minutes)
Source Discussion: Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, Lecture on Teaching and Learning and Answer to
Renan, (on e-reserves)
October 1: Lecture: The Era of the Young Turks and the Iranian Constitutionalists
Readings: Cleveland, 133-148
Week Six:
October 5: Source Discussion: The Young Turks: Proclamation for the Ottoman Empire, 1908
(@ http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1908youngturk.asp)
Lecture: World War I and the End of the Ottoman Order
Readings: Cleveland, 149-173.
October 8: Midterm
Week Seven:
October 12: Columbus DayUniversity Closed
October 15: Midterm Review
PART TWO
Week Eight
October 19: Source Discussion: Anonymous, Announcement to the Arabs, Sons of Qahtan;
Sherif Husain of Mecca, Territorial Demands Made on the British Government.
Lecture: Authoritarian Reform in Turkey and Iran
Readings: Cleveland, 171-185
October 22: Source Discussion: Mustafa Kemal Atatrk: From Speech to the Assembly,
October, 1924 (Mustafa Kemals arguments against the party wanting to maintain the
Caliphate, pp. 438-449)
Lecture: The Arab Struggle for Independence I: Egypt, Iraq, and Transjordan from the Interwar
Era to 1945
Readings: Cleveland, 193-215
Week Nine:
October 26: Source Discussion: Sati al-Husri, Muslim Unity and Arab Unity, in Haim, 147155.
Lecture: The Arab Struggle for Independence II: Syria from the Interwar Era to 1945
Readings: Cleveland, 217-225.
October 29: Lecture: The Palestinian Mandate and the Birth of the State of Israel
Readings: Cleveland, 239-271
Week Ten:
November 2: Source Discussion: The Belfour Declaration (1917), (@
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/balfour.asp); The British Governments White Paper on
Palestine (1939) (on e-reserves)
November 5: Lecture: The Middle East in the Age of Nasser I: The Egyptian Base
Readings: Cleveland, 301-323
Week Eleven:
November 9: Source Discussion: Jamal Abdel Nasser, The Philosophy of the Revolution, in
Haim, 229-233
Lecture: The Middle East in the Age of Nasser II: The Radicalization of Arab Politics
Readings: Cleveland, 323-337
November 12: Lecture: Israel, the Arab States, and the June War
Readings: Cleveland, 337-344
Week Twelve:
November 16: Source Discussion: Statement by President Nasser to Arab Trade Unionists
(@ http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/nasser1.html)
Lecture: Israel and the Palestinians from 1948 to the 1970s
Readings: Cleveland, 345-367, 382-389
November 19: Source Discussion: Palestinian National Council, The National Charter (1964,
1968), (on e-reserves)
Lecture: Changing Patterns of War and Peace: Egypt in the 1970s and 1980s
Readings: Cleveland, 369-382.
Week Thirteen:
November 23: Source Discussion: President Anwar Sadat's Address
to the Israeli Knesset (@
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Peace/sadat_speech.html)
Lecture: The Consolidation of Authoritarian Rule in Syria and Iraq: The Regimes of Hafiz alAsad and Saddam Husayn
Readings: Cleveland, 397-423
November 26: ThanksgivingUniversity closed.
Week Fourteen:
November 30: Lecture: Authoritarian Reform in Iran
Readings: Cleveland, 185-191
December 3: Lecture: The Iranian Revolution and the Resurgence of Islam
Readings: Cleveland, 423-450
Week Fifteen:
December 7: Source Discussion: Ayatollah Khomeini, Iran in Imperialisms Clutches (1964)
(on e-reserves)
December 10: Review
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HIST 1750: Islamic History and Culture
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