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| Note on Transliteration | ||||||
| Introduction | 1 | |||||
| Pt. I | Theoretical and Comparative Issues | 11 | ||||
| 1 | Informal Networks and Political Stability: Old and New Perspectives | 13 | ||||
| 2 | Urban Networks as Destabilizing Forces | 21 | ||||
| Pt. II | Informal Networks in the Traditional Middle Eastern Urban Political Economy | 27 | ||||
| 3 | Informal Networks as Integrative Force and Medium of Government in the Historic Middle Eastern City | 29 | ||||
| 4 | Networks as Vehicles for Political Protest in the Historic Middle Eastern City | 45 | ||||
| 5 | Urban Networks, ca. 1800 ca. 1940: Contrasting Egypt and Iran | 55 | ||||
| 6 | The Politics of Informal Networks in the Historic Middle Eastern City: Concluding Observations | 71 | ||||
| 7 | The Politics of Informal Networks and Loyalties in the Making of Modern-Day Lebanon | 77 | ||||
| Pt. III | Informal Networks and Urban Unrest: Evidence From Egypt, Iran, and Lebanon since the 1940s | 85 | ||||
| 8 | The Changing Organizational Bases of Urban Unrest in the Middle East since World War II: An Overview, with Special Reference to Egypt, Iran, and Lebanon | 87 | ||||
| 9 | Patron-Client Networks and Urban Unrest in Iran, Lebanon, and Egypt | 99 | ||||
| 10 | Occupational Networks and Political Conflict: The Iranian Bazaar | 135 | ||||
| 11 | Religious Networks and Urban Unrest | 149 | ||||
| Conclusion | 193 | |||||
| Notes | 225 | |||||
| Appendix: Data on Urban Growth in the Middle East | 259 | |||||
| Bibliography | 265 | |||||
| Index | 302 | |||||
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