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Kemal Ataturk, founder of modern Turkey, addressing crowd in 1924. courtesy of Ottoman Empire.info |
History of the Modern Middle East requires students to survey the struggle of the Muslim powers in the Middle East as they encounter the technically advanced and aggressive West. As many of the Middle Eastern states attempt to modernize, they struggle to adopt new ideas into the context of Islam. A centerpiece requirement of the course is a term paper dealing with some historical topic involving the Muslim Middle East and the region's struggle with the West and Western modernism. Click the tabs top the left to start your research.
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