Postgraduate Module Descriptor

ARAM187: The Middle East before 1945

This module descriptor refers to the 2019/0 academic year.

Module Content

Syllabus Plan

Week 1 - Introduction / Middle Eastern Historiography
Week 2 - Local Actors (Old and New Elites)
Week 3 - Outside Actors (Imperialism Powers)
Week 4 - Communities, Tribes, and the State
Week 5 - The Ottoman Empire
Week 6 - No class (reading break)
Week 7 - The Turkish Republic
Week 8 - Egypt
Week 9 - Iran under the Qajars
Week 10 - Iran under the Pahlavis
Week 11 - Palestine and Zionism
Week 12 - The Gulf States before Oil

Teaching sessions will normally include lecturing and class discussion. Emphasis will be placed on the development of critical approaches to mainstream historical literature dealing with the period.

Learning and Teaching

This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:

Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities	Guided independent study	Placement / study abroad
22	278	0

...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:

Category	Hours of study time	Description
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities	22 hours	Classroom hours
Guided independent study	278 hours	Independent study

Online Resources

This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

Justin McCarthy, The Ottoman Turks: An Introductory History to 1923 (1997).
Donald Quataert, The Ottoman Empire, 1700-1922, 2nd edn. (2005).
Bernard Lewis, The Emergence of Modern Turkey, 3rd edn. (2002).
Nikki Keddie, Modern Iran: Roots and Results of Revolution (2003).
Sami Zubaida, Islam, the People, and the State, rev. edn. (1993)
Roger Owen, State, Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East, 3rd edn. (2003)