Bibliograph

Through Middle Eastern eyes, Robert P. Pearson, Leon E. Clark

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Through Middle Eastern eyes, Robert P. Pearson, Leon E. Clark

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Through Middle Eastern eyes

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

50813615

Responsibility statement

Robert P. Pearson, Leon E. Clark

Table Of Contents

pt. 1. Tradition and change -- The importance of children -- Learning to be a man -- Traditional girlhood -- The bard -- Going to a Koranic school -- "My mind was open for information and wisdom" -- Behavior and morality -- Watching one's reputation -- The public bath -- Courtship -- Removing the veil -- The dream -- The life of Mohammed -- Letters on Islam -- The five pillars of Islam -- The pilgrimage to Mecca -- "If God wills it" --- The grocer and the chief -- A Lebanese family -- The Islamic backlash -- pt. 2. Past glories, future hopes -- Colonialism and the making of a revolution -- The Arab golden age: Harun Al-Rashid's Baghdad -- The Ottoman empire -- Ataturk's reforms -- The philosophy of the revolution -- After the revolution: Algerian self-government -- Oil in the Middle East -- Islamic feminism -- The Arab-Israeli conflict -- The life of Joseph Baratz, part 1-3 -- Israel: the forging of a nation -- The Intifada: an uprising for a nation -- The Persian Gulf War -- After the war: the Palestinians and the Kurds -- After the war: a chance for peace -- What now? After the Camp David II talks fail -- Zionism comes full circle -- Declaring war on America -- Terrorists on tape -- Reactions to 9/11 -- Fundamentalist Islam -- Whither Islam- and American?

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