Acknowledgments p. vii
Contributor's List p. xiii
Introduction: The Connected World of Empires C. A. Bayly and Leila Fawaz p. 1
1. Trade and Port Cities in the Red Sea--Gulf of Aden Region in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Michel Tuchscherer p. 28
2. A Divided Sea: The Cairo Coffee Trade in the Red Sea Area during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Andre Raymond p. 46
3. The Red Sea Ports During the Revolution in Transportation, 1800-1914 Colette Dubois p. 58
4. Port Cities as Nodal Points of Change: The Indian Ocean, 1890s-1920s Kenneth McPherson p. 75
5. Haifa at the Crossroads: An Outpost of the New World Order May Seikaly p. 96
6. Islamic Universalism and the Construction of Regional Identity in Turn-of-the-Century Basra: Sheikh Ibrahim al-Haidari's Book Revisited Hala Fattah p. 112
7. Damascus and the Pilgrim Caravan Abdul-Karim Rafeq p. 130
8. Aspects of Economy and Society in the Syrian Provinces: Aleppo in Transition, 1880-1925 Peter Sluglett p. 144
9. Representing Copts and Muhammadans: Empire, Nation, and Community in Egypt and India, 1880-1914 C. A. Bayly p. 158
10. Izmir 1922: A Port City Unravels Resat Kasaba p. 204
11. Negotiating Colonial Modernity and Cultural Difference: Indian Muslim Conceptions of Community and Nation, 1878-1914 Ayesha Jalal p. 230
12. The Tangled Ends of an Empire and Its Sultan Engin Deniz Akarli p. 261
13. Racial Readings of Empire: Britain, France, and Colonial Modernity in the Mediterranean and Asia Susan Bayly p. 285
14. Alexandria: A Mediterranean Cosmopolitan Center of Cultural Production Robin Ostle p. 314
15. Between Politics and Literature: Journals in Alexandria and Istanbul at the End of the Nineteenth Century Elisabeth Kendall p. 330
16. Printing and Urban Islam in the Mediterranean World, 1890-1920 Juan R. I. Cole p. 344
17. Space and Time on the Indian Ocean Rim: Theory and History Sugata Bose p. 365
Index p. 387