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HIST 3550: The Middle East in the Twentieth Century: Topic 11

An OER for Louis Fishman's Course

Topic 11: The Rise of Islamism and Challenges to the Ruling Elites

The Rise of Islamism and Challenges to the Ruling Elites (November 13-18)

Anderson, Chapter 10. “Islamism, Invasion, and Rebellion from the 1990s into the 21st century,” 403-445 (November 10)

Salwa Ismail, “Confronting the Other: Identity, Culture, Politics, and Conservative Islamism in Egypt,” in IJMES, Vol. 30, No. 2 (May 1998), pp. 199-225.

Hilal Khashan, “The New World Order and the Tempo of Militant Islam,” in the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 24, no. 1 (May 1997).

Oliver Roy “The Crisis of Religious Legitimacy in Iran” in Middle East Journal 53/2 (Spring 1999), 201-216.