TY - BOOK AU - Gettleman,Marvin E. AU - Schaar,Stuart TI - The Middle East and Islamic world reader SN - 0802139361 U1 - 956 PY - 2003///] CY - New York PB - Grove Press KW - Islamic countries KW - Civilization KW - Middle East N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages [363]-368) and index; Islamic beginnings : revelation, state building, and culture; From the coming of steppe peoples to the age of gunpowder empires; Contradictions of modernity : imperialism and social change; The two world wars and their aftermaths; Arabs and Zionists struggle over Palestine; Geopolitics of oil and the cold ward conflict; Ideologies, movements, and social trends; Terrorism, war, global responsibility ER -