Israel Gershoni and Amy Singer teach modern Middle East history and Ottoman history, respectively, in the Department of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University. Y. Hakan Erdem teaches history in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Sabanci University, Istanbul. Other contributors include Walter Armbrust (St. Antony's College, Oxford) , Marilyn Booth (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Julia Clancy-Smith (University of Arizona, Tucson), Juan R. I. Cole (University of Michigan), Fatma Muge Gocek (University of Michigan), Ellis Goldberg (University of Washington), R. Stephen Humphreys (University of California, Santa Barbara), Eve M. Troutt Powell (University of Pennsylvania), and Charles D. Smith (University of Arizona).

Acknowledgments
Part I: The State of the Art
Introduction / Israel Gershoni and Amy Singer
1. The Historiography of the Modern Middle East: Transforming a Field of Study / R. Stephen Humphreys
Part II: Colonialism and Nationalism
2. The Historiography of World War I and the Emergence of the Contemporary Middle East / Charles D. Smith
3. Twentieth-Century Historians and Historiography of the Middle East: Women, Gender, and Empire / Julia Clancy-Smith
4. Reading Genocide: Turkish Historiography on the Armenian Deportations and Massacres of 1915 / Fatma Muge Gocek
Part III: Narratives of Crisis
5. The Theory of Crisis and the Crisis in a Theory: Intellectual History in
Twentieth-Century Middle Eastern Studies / Israel Gershoni
6. The Historiography of Crisis in the Egyptian Political Economy / Ellis Goldberg
Part IV: Emerging Voices
7. On Gender, History, . . . and Fiction / Marilyn Booth
8. Will That Subaltern Ever Speak? Finding African Slaves in the Historiography of the Middle East / Eve M. Troutt Powell
9. Muslim Religious Extremism in Egypt: A Historiographical Critique of Narratives / Juan R. I. Cole
10. Audiovisual Media and History of the Middle East / Walter Armbrust
Glossary
Contributors
Index

Edited by Israel Gershoni, Amy Singer, and Y. Hakan Erdem