The Modern Middle East

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History of Islam and the broader Middle East including North Africa since 1500. Topics covered include the rise of early modern empires, closer contact with Western Europe and East Asia, the impact of Western imperialism, state-sponsored defensive reforms, the development of religious modernism, social movements and constitutionalism, the emergence of nationalism, oil-dependent economies and rentier states, the origins of religious activism, and the contemporary struggle for civil rights.