The Hashemites in the Modern Arab World: Essays in Honour of the late Professor Uriel Dann [Hardcover]

Uriel Dann (Author), Aryeh Shmuelevitz (Author, Editor), Asher Susser (Author, Editor)

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Publication Date: June 24, 1996

Examines the crucial role of the Hashemites in Arab nationalism throughout the 20th century, from the 1916 Arab Revolt through the creation of Arab states after World War I, the attempts at Arab unity, and the establishment of two kingdoms, to the current Palestinian debate.

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• Hardcover: 264 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (June 24, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0714646016
• ISBN-13: 978-0714646015
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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4.0 out of 5 stars The Hashemites in the Modern Arab World, July 26, 2001

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Daniel Pipes, Middle East Forum, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Hashemites in the Modern Arab World: Essays in Honour of the late Professor Uriel Dann (Hardcover)

Decades ago, an author rightly called the Hashemite familys having ruled Mecca for a millennium, almost without interruption, one of the more remarkable phenomena of history. But it did so in obscurity, only to burst onto the world scene with World War I and the Arab Revolt. For ten glorious years, from the Husayn-McMahon correspondence of 1915-16 (in which London supported Hashemite aspirations to found a pan-Arab caliphate) until the Saudi conquest of Mecca in 1924 (which effectively ended those Hashemite aspirations), the family plausibly laid claim to lead the Arabic-speaking world. Then failure set in, as the Hashemites lost Syria, the caliphate, Hijaz, and (much later) Iraq. Only the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, that modest remnant of a great ambition, survived the general collapse.

In a well-designed and lively volume, Tel Aviv Universitys Dayan Center has taken the welcome step of assessing the twentieth-century Hashemite experience as a whole. It does so in three parts, one each dealing with the Hijaz kingdom, Iraq, and Jordan. In addition to the more conventional analysis, such as Joseph Nevos exemplary study of King Abdallahs memoirs, several of the essays draw on unusual sources or deal with unusual topics. Ami Ayalon interprets the Hijaz kingdom via its postage stamps. Jeffrey A. Rudd (the one non-Israeli essay writer in the volume) finds gold in a protracted British government debate over whether to spell the new countrys name Irak or Iraq, seeing in this a metaphor for basic disagreements on larger issues. Martin Kramer recounts the peculiar history of Eugène Jung, the Hashemites French booster. Michael Winter shows that Jordanian textbooks before 1967 were among the most radical in the Arab worldnot a little surprising given that countrys moderate politics.

Middle East Quarterly, March 1996