Middle East
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Table of Contents
- 80 sources in the standard version
Units
- Historiographical Overview and the Sasanian and Byzantine Empires in the Middle East
- Pre-Islamic Arabia
- Career of the Prophet
- Era of the “Rightly Guided Caliphs”
- The Umayyads, the Shiʿa, and the Kharijites
- The ʿAbbasid Period to 1258
- The Mongols and the Middle East
- The Gunpowder Empires
- Relations with the Wider Islamic World
- The Rise of European Imperialism
- World War I through World War II
- The Middle East during the Cold War
- From the Gulf War to the Iraq War
- Arab Spring and Beyond