Table of Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS NOTE ON SOURCES NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION Introduction I Arabs and Arab Provinces in the Evolution of the Young Turk Movement Tanzimat Centralization, Arabs, and Ottomanism The Constitution, Parliament, and Arab Representation The Hamidian Era: Continuity and Change The Young Turk Opposition and the Arabs Conclusion 2 The Second Constitutional Experiment, 1908-1909 Crisis of Authority in the Capital and the Provinces The 1908 Revolution and the CUP in the Arab Provinces The 1908 Elections The Arab Parliamentary Contingent in the First Legislative Year The Counterrevolution Reform and Centralization 3 The Opposition and the Arabs, 1910-1909 "Turkification" Parliament: Arabs in Opposition Parties and Issues of Arab Concern Unrest in the Arab Provinces Conclusion 4 The Decentralist Challenge and a New "Arab Policy," 1912-1913 The 1912 Elections The CUP's Broken Fortunes and Arabs The CUP Comeback Conclusion: Islamist Reinterpretation of Ottomanism 5 A Case Study in Centralization: The Hijaz under Young Turk Rule, 1908-1914 The Young Turk Revolution and the Hijaz The Grand Sharifate of Husayn Ibn "Ali Extension of Ottoman Influence in the Hijaz Sharif Husayn's Campaigns Sharif Husayn's Struggle to Maintain His Authority Conclusion 6 The War Years, 1914-1918 The Elections of 1914 and the Eclipse of the Reform Movement The Hijaz on the Eve of War The Arab Provinces and the Early Period of the War The Sharif Husayn-Istanbul Correspondence Syria under Cemal Pasha's Governorship The Arab Uprising and Istanbul's Response War, Politics, and Ideology The End of the Empire and Turkish-Arab Relations Conclusion NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX