Between Qur'an and Crown: The Challenge of Political Legitimacy in the Arab World
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Dedication -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: The Development of Secularism -- The European Experience: From Empire to Nation-States -- Nation or State? -- Europe's Age of Religious Warfare -- Separating Religious from Political Authority -- The Reality of Secularism -- 2 Islamic Decentralization and Initial Responses -- The Medieval Islamic World -- Decentralizing Pressures in the Arab World -- Sources of Islamic Political Fragmentation -- Caliphal Attempts to Consolidate Central Control -- The First Foreign Invasions -- Intellectual Responses to Caliphal Decentralization -- A Reformulation of Islamic Thought -- Distinguishing Religious from Political Unity -- Conditional Political Authority -- 3 The Ottoman Interlude -- The Ottomans Assume the Caliphal Legacy -- Ottoman Success Is Fleeting -- Conditions in the Arab Provinces -- Ottoman Egypt -- Syria -- European Attempts to Keep the Ottoman World Weak -- The Wahhabi Affair -- The First Stirring of Arab Nationalism -- 4 The Emergence of National Self-Awareness in Syria and Egypt -- Education as Catalyst -- Syrian Arab Nationalism -- Sectarian Rivalry Invites European Intervention -- Egyptian Nationalism -- Europe as Catalyst to Emerging Nationalism -- Al-Afghani -- Al-Afghani's Legacy: 'Abduh -- Europe Exploits Waning Ottoman Power in Egypt -- Renewed Ottoman Pressure Boosts Syrian Nationalism -- Syrian and Egyptian Nationalism Progress -- Egyptian Political Organization -- Syrian Political Organization -- 5 The Arab Revoit and Its Aftermath -- The Nationalists Find a Leader -- The Arab Revolt -- European Treachery -- Initial Arab Responses and British Reassurance -- Europe's Blueprint for Arab Instability -- The Palestine Problem -- More European Assurances -- "The Counterfeit Peace" -- The Will of the Population.