Social & Economy History of the Middle East,1800-1920

Course content

The course is designed to analyze modern Middle Eastern history and economic developments in the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries. The first step in the course is to introduce various theoretical approaches to the Middle Eastern social and economic understanding. Next, the course will refer to specific histories of some of the Middle Eastern societies with reference to the socio-economic developments in the Ottoman Empire until the end of the First World War.