The end of Middle East history and other conjectures /
by Richard W. Bulliet.
- viii, 132 p. ; 23 cm.
- Mizan series ; 3 .
- Mizan series ; 3. .
Includes bibliographical references.
The End of Middle East History -- Critiquing Orientalism : Marshall Hodgson and Edward Said. -- A Big Bang, Big Crunch Theory of Islamic History -- Abu Muslim and Charlemagne -- The History of the Muslim South: The Hajj and the Recentering of Islamic Civilization -- The Siege of Vienna and the Ottoman Threat -- 9/11 : Landmark or Watershed -- A Wild Tomb Chase -- Isthmus Civilizations and the "Sapient Paradox" -- Twentieth-Century History -- Speciation and the Anthropocene -- The Last Millenarian Games.
"The End of Middle East History and Other Conjectures is an unapologetic collection of imaginative essays from thought-provoking Middle East scholar Richard W. Bulliet. Not your ordinary think pieces, this volume collects for the first time Bulliet's Big Bang-Big Crunch theory of Islamic history and his illuminating conception of the "Muslim South." Speculations range from future political events to counterfactual histories of how reversal of the outcome of a 1529 battle might have profoundly altered history. After fifty years of posing and answering daring historical questions, Bulliet happily tackles an array of conjectures on subjects as diverse as the origin of civilization, the end of Middle East history, and future interpretations of the twentieth century"--