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Department of History / Faculty and Staff / Retired / Cleveland, William L.

William L. Cleveland

Professor Emeritus

Areas of Study: MIDDLE EAST, AFRICA AND ASIA.

The History department was deeply saddened to learn of the passing of William Cleveland, Professor of Middle East History in late September 2006. At the invitation of Gretchen Cleveland, faculty, staff and students from across the university joined Bill's family and friends on November 10, 2006 in the Halpern Centre at Simon Fraser University for a celebration of his life. Further information about Bill can be found in Primary Source, the Newsletter of the Department of History, vol 5, July 2007.

Publications (Books)

A History of the Modern Middle East.  (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994.)

"The Role of Islam as Political Ideology in the First World War," in Edward Ingram (ed.), National and International Politics in the Middle East (London: Frank Cass, 1986) pp. 84-101.

Islam Against the West: Shakib Arslan and the Campaign for Islamic Nationalism, (Austin: University of Texas Press 1985), xxii, 223 pp. (London: al-Saqi Books, 1985).

Translated into Arabic by Victor Sahhab as Sati al-Husri: Min Al-Fikra Al-Uthmaniyyah Ila Al-Urubah (Beirut: Dar Al-Wahadah, 1983).

The Making of an Arab Nationalist: Ottomanism and Arabism in the Life and Thought of Sati al-Husri, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971), xvi, 211 pp

Publications (Articles)

  • "The Role of Islam as Political Ideology in the First World War," in Edward Ingram (ed.), National and International Politics in the Middle East (London: Frank Cass, 1986) pp. 84-101.
  • "Ataturk Viewed by His Arab Contemporaries: The Opinions of Sati'al-Husri and Shakib Arslan", International Journal of Turkish Studies, II (1983), 15-23.
  • "Sources of Arab Nationalism: An Overview, "Middle East Review, xi (1979), pp. 25-33. Reprinted in Michael Curtis (ed.), Religion and Politics in the Middle East (Boulder: Westview Press, 1981)
  • "The Municipal Council of Tunis: 1858-1870: A Study in Urban Institutional Change," International Journal of Middle East Studies, (1978), pp. 33-61.
  • "Iran: The Islamic Basis of Revolution," Queen's Quarterly, lxxxvii (1981), pp. 273-278.
  • "The Arab Middle East: An Update, 1975-1977," in Annual Bibliography of Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism, (1978), pp. 93-102.
  • "The Arab Middle East," Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism, iii (1977), pp. 36-50.
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