Modernity and Culture from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, 1890--1920 Book

	Acknowledgments
	Contributor's List
	Introduction: The Connected World of Empires	1
1	Trade and Port Cities in the Red Sea - Gulf of Aden Region in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century	28
2	A Divided Sea: The Cairo Coffee Trade in the Red Sea Area during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries	46
3	The Red Sea Ports During the Revolution in Transportation, 1800-1914	58
4	Port Cities as Nodal Points of Change: The Indian Ocean, 1890s-1920s	75
5	Haifa at the Crossroads: An Outpost of the New World Order	96
6	Islamic Universalism and the Construction of Regional Identity in Turn-of-the-Century Basra: Sheikh Ibrahim al-Haidari's Book Revisited	112
7	Damascus and the Pilgrim Caravan	130
8	Aspects of Economy and Society in the Syrian Provinces: Aleppo in Transition, 1880-1925	144
9	Representing Copts and Muhammadans: Empire, Nation, and Community in Egypt and India, 1880-1914	158
10	Izmir 1922: A Port City Unravels	204
11	Negotiating Colonial Modernity and Cultural Difference: Indian Muslim Conceptions of Community and Nation, 1878-1914	230
12	The Tangled Ends of an Empire and Its Sultan	261
13	Racial Readings of Empire: Britain, France, and Colonial Modernity in the Mediterranean and Asia	285
14	Alexandria: A Mediterranean Cosmopolitan Center of Cultural Production	314
15	Between Politics and Literature: Journals in Alexandria and Istanbul at the End of the Nineteenth Century	330
16	Printing and Urban Islam in the Mediterranean World, 1890-1920	344
17	Space and Time on the Indian Ocean Rim: Theory and History	365
	Index	387