Use this guide to choose topics for your Reading Responses and possibly also for your Term Essay. Use the History of the Middle East Database for basic facts and outlines of events and movements. Some of the more specific topics below are linked to items on the database. Many links to related topics can be found at Models of Islamic Revivalism. The World Factbook (CIA) can be extremely useful. See also Benchmarks in Islamic History , The Political and Religious Landscape of the Middle East at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century , History by Region or State, History According to Chronology, and Overview of Islam.
Part I Expansion
| Sayyid Qutb | Muslim Brotherhood |
| Egypt | Ayatollah Khomeini |
| Takfir wa-l-Hijra | |
| Mawlana Mawdudi | |
| Pakistan |
Ch. 2, Islam in the Late 1960s
| The Wahhabis and Saudi Arabia | Egypt |
| Algeria | Pakistan |
Ch. 3, Building Petro-Islam on the Ruins of Arab Nationalism
| The Nasser Period | Wahhabi Movement and Saudi Arabia |
| "Black September" (1970) |
Ch. 4, Islamism in Egypt, Malaysia, and Pakistan
| Egypt | Pakistan |
| Malyasia's Mahathir Mohamad (2002) (and again) | Organization of Islamic Conference (1969) |
Ch. 5, Khomeini's Revolution and its Legacy
Ch. 6, Jihad in Afghanistan and Intifada in Palestine
| Afghanistan and the Taliban | Palestinian Intifadas : 1987 , 2000 |
| Abdullah Azzam | HAMAS |
| "The Great Game(s)": 1898, 1990s |
Ch. 7, Islamization in Algeria and Sudan
| Algeria | Sudan |
Ch. 8, The Fatwa and the Veil in Europe
| Islam in France | Islam in Great Britain |
| Barelwi Movement (India, 1803) | Salman Rushdie fatwa |
| Deobandi Islam | Iran's New Challenge to Saudi Arabia |
Part II Decline
Ch. 9, From the Gulf War to the Taliban Jihad
| The Gulf Wars Period | Taliban |
| Buraydah Uprising, 1994 | Bamiyan Buddhas Destroyed, 2001 |
| Sepoy Mutiny, 1857 | Osama bin Laden |
| Deobandi Islam | Pakistan |
Ch. 10, The Failure to Graft Jihad on Bosnia's Civil War
| Bosnia | |
Ch. 11, The Logic of Massacre in the Second Algerian War
| Algeria | |
Ch. 12, The Threat of Terrorism in Egypt
| Egypt | |
Ch. 13, Osama bin Laden and the War against the West
| Osama bin Laden (See also Wahhabis and Saudis) | |
Ch. 14, Hamas, Israel, Arafat, and Jordan
Ch. 15, The Forced Secularization of Turkish Islamists
| Turkey (recent political history) | Era of Ataturk (1923-1938) |
| Decline of Ottoman Empire | Overview of Ottoman and Turkish History |
| Post 9/11 | |