Curriculum Vitae of Peter Sluglett
Last Updated April 2004
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University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
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E-mail: sluglett@aol.com
Salt Lake City, UT 84105
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Education
B.A., Arabic and History, 1966
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University of Utah
California at Berkeley
Publications
(edited with Nadine Méouchy), The British and French mandates in comparative perspectives/Les mandats français et anglais dans une perspective comparative, Leiden, Brill, 2003, 743 pp.
(and Marion Farouk-Sluglett) Iraq since 1958: from Revolution to Dictatorship. London, Kegan Paul International, 1987, xi + 323 pp. Second revised paperback edition, London, I.B. Tauris, xi +336 pp., 1990. German translation Der Irak seit 1958: Von der Revolution zur Diktatur. Frankfurt, Suhrkamp, 1991, 350 pp. 3rd English edition, London, I.B. Tauris, 2001.
(Co-author and co-editor with Marion Farouk-Sluglett) The Times Guide to the Middle East. London, HarperCollins, 1991, 308 pp. (Revised and updated, and published in the United States as the Guide to the Middle East, Boston, Charles E. Tuttle, 1992.) 2nd revised edition, 1993; 3rd revised edition, HarperCol-lins, London and Boulder, 1996.
Etat, Ville et Mouvements Sociaux au Maghreb et au Moyen Orient /Arab and Muslim Cities; the State, Urban Crisis and Social Move-ments, co-editor, (with Kenneth Brown, Bernard Hourcade, Michèle Jolé, Claude Liauzu, Sami Zubaida) Paris, Harmattan, 1989, 346 pp.
Trans. Leo the African (Léon l'Africain/ by Amin Maalouf), London, Quartet Books, 1988, 360 pp.
Middle Eastern Cities in Comparative Perspective/Points de Vue sur les Villes du Maghreb et du Machrek. London, Ithaca Press, 1986, 341 pp. co-editor (with Kenneth Brown, Michèle Jolé, and Sami Zubaida).
Theses on Islam, the Middle East and North-West Africa 1880-1978 accepted by Universities in the United Kingdom and Ireland. London, Mansell Publishing, 1983, xii + 147 pp. (Compiler)
(and Marion Farouk-Sluglett) ed. and trans. B. Tibi, Arab Nationalism: a Critical Enquiry London, Macmillan, 1981, xvi + 286 pp. (Originally Nationalismus in der Dritten Welt am arabischen Beispiel, Frankfurt/Main, 1971).
Britain in Iraq, 1914-1932. London, Ithaca Press, 1976, ix + 357 pp.
‘Iraq,’ Encyclopedia Americana, Stamford CT, Grolier, 2004, Vol 15, pp. 388-399.
‘General Introduction’ (with Nadine Méouchy) in Peter Sluglett and Nadine Méouchy (eds.), The British and French mandates in comparative perspectives/Les mandats français et anglais dans une perspective comparative, Leiden, Brill, 2003, pp. 1-20. (French translation pp. 21-41).
‘British archival sources for the history of the Middle Eastern mandates’, in Peter Sluglett and Nadine Méouchy (eds.), The British and French mandates in comparative perspectives/Les mandats français et anglais dans une perspective comparative, Leiden, Brill, 2003, pp. 55-62.
‘Les mandates/the mandates; Some reflections on the nature of the British presence in Iraq (1914-1932) and the French presence in Syria (1918-1946)’, in Peter Sluglett and Nadine Méouchy (eds.), The British and French mandates in comparative perspectives/Les mandats français et anglais dans une perspective comparative, Leiden, Brill, 2003, pp. 103-28.
‘Iraq after the US invasion’ in ISIM Newsletter, (Leiden, Netherlands) 13, December 2003, pp. 24-25.
‘Iraq después del Baas’, in La Vanguardia (Madrid) No 5, 2003, pp. 80-86.
‘The Institutional History of Iraq’ in Constitutional Options for Post-War Iraq, Forum of Federations, Ottawa, 2003, pp. 3-13.
‘The British legacy’ in Michael Eisenstadt and Eric Mathewson (eds.), U. S. Policy in Post-Saddam Iraq: Lessons from the British Experience, Washington DC, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2003, pp. 3-14.
‘Aleppo’ (I:81); ‘Baghdad’ (II: 214-16); ‘Hussein, Saddam’ (II: 569-70); ‘Judaism —West Asia’ (III: 286-88); ‘Marsh Arabs’ (IV: 76-77); ‘Mosul’ (IV: 198-99); Persian Gulf War’ (IV: 481-83), in David Levinson and Karen Christensen (eds.), Encyclopedia of Asia, New York, Scribner, 2002.
‘Will the “real nationalists” please stand up? The political activities of the notables of Aleppo, 1918-1946’, in Nadine Méouchy (ed.), Les Ambiguités et Les Dynamiques de la Relation Mandataire : France Syrie et Liban, 1918-1946, IFEAD, Damascus, 2002, pp. 273-90.
‘La monarchie dans le monde arabe : mythes et réalités’ in Rémy Leveau and Abdellah Hammoudi (éds.), Monarchies Arabes : Transitions et dérives dynastiques, (Les études de La documentation Française), Paris, La documentation Française, 2002, pp. 143-58.
‘The Resilience of a frontier: Ottoman and Iraqi claims to Kuwait, 1871 to 1990’, International History Review, 24, 2002, pp. 783-816.
‘Zur jüngeren Geschichte des Irak’, in Thomas v.d.Osten Sacken and Arras Fatah (eds.), Saddam Husseins letzes Gefecht ? Der lange Weg in der III Weltkrieg, Hamburg, Konkret, 2002, pp. 26-50.
‘The Marsh Dwellers in the History of Modern Iraq’; ‘The International Context of Iraq from 1980 to the Present’ in Emma Nicholson and Peter Clark (eds.), The Iraqi Marshlands: a Human and Environmental Study, London, Politico’s Press, 2002, pp. 223-239, 240-261.
‘The Pan-Arab Movement and the Influence of Cairo and Moscow’, in Wm. Roger Louis and Roger Owen (eds.), A Revolutionary Year: the Middle East in 1958, London and Washington D.C., I.B. Tauris and Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2002, pp. 209-220.
‘Aspects of Economy and Society in the Syrian Provinces: Aleppo in Transition, 1880-1925’, in Leila Tarazi Fawaz and C. A. Bayly (eds.), Modernity and Culture from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, New York, Columbia University Press, 2002, pp. 144-157.
‘Formal and Informal Empire in the Middle East’, in Robin W. Winks (ed.), The Oxford History of the British Empire, Vol V, Historiography, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1999, pp. 416-436. Second paperback edition, 2001.
‘Palestine, Zionism and the Arab-Israeli Conflict since 1947’; ‘Nationalism, secularism and Islam in the Middle East since 1945’, in The Times History of the World, HarperCollins, London, 1999, pp. 288-89, 290-91.
‘Sati‘ al-Husri’ (p.299), ‘Rashid Rida’ (p.662), ‘Antun Sa‘ada’ (p.669), ‘Qustatin Zurayq’ (p. 829), in Julie S. Meisami and Paul Starkey (eds.) Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature, Routledge, London, 1998.
‘Abd al-Ilah ibn ‘Ali (I:13-14), Anglo-Iraqi Treaties (I:151-52), Humphrey Bowman (I:396), Sir Percy Cox (I:510), Faysal II of Iraq (II:636), Ghazi I of Iraq (II:707), Muhammad Hadid (II:751-52), Hizb al-Ikha’ al-Watani (II:848), Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri (II:938-39), Rashid ‘Ali al-Kaylani (II:993-94), Muhammad Mahdi Kubba (II:1042-43), Nur al-Din Mahmud (III:1146), Jamil al-Midfa‘i (III:1206), al-Rumaytha
rebellion (III:1552), Naji Shawkat (IV:1647), Sami Shawkat (IV:1647), Mar Shim‘un (IV:1655), Bakr Sidqi (IV:1663-64), Hikmat Sulayman (IV:1700), Nazim al-Tabaqchali (IV:1720), Arshad al-‘Umari (IV:1842), Mustafa al-‘Umari (IV:1842), Wahda Party (IV:1873), Sir Arnold Wilson (IV:1893), Zayd b. Husayn (IV:1951), in Reeva S. Simon, Philip Mattar, Richard W. Bulliet (eds.) Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East, New York, Macmillan, 1996.
‘Progress postponed: Iraqi oil policy since the Revolution of 1958’, in Kate Gillespie and Clement M. Henry (eds.), Oil in the New World Order. Gainesville, FL, University of Florida Press, 1995, pp. 227-256.
‘Arab Socialism’, in John Esposito (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1995, Vol I, pp. 116-118.
‘Pan-Arabism’ Blackwell Dictionary of Twentieth Century Social Thought, Oxford, Blackwell, 1994, pp. 444-446.
‘Rashid ‘Ali al-Gaylani’, Encyclopedia of Islam, 2nd edition, Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1993, Vol VIII, pp. 140-143.
‘Michel ‘Aflaq’, in Robert Benewick and Philip Green (eds.), Routledge Dictionary of Twentieth Century Social Thinkers. London: Routledge, 1993, pp. 4-5.
‘Sir Francis Humphrys’, in C. S. Nicholls (ed.), Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons. Oxford: Oxford University, 1993, pp. 337-38.
‘Nuri al-Sa‘id. Encyclopedia of Islam, 2nd edition, Leiden, E. J. Brill, Vol VIII, 1993, pp. 140-143.
‘Mulla Mustafa Barzani’, Encyclopedia of Islam, 2nd edition, Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1992, Vol VII, pp. 714-715.
‘al-Muntafik in recent times’, Encylopedia of Islam, 2nd edition, Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1992, Vol VII, pp. 582-83.
Times Concise Atlas of World History, revised edition, London, Times Books, 1992 (Contributor).
‘al-Mawsil since 1900’, Encyclopedia of Islam, 2nd edition, Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1991, Vol VI, pp. 901-902.
‘Urban dissidence in Mandatory Syria: Aleppo 1918-1936’, in Kenneth Brown, Bernard Hourcade, Michèle Jolé, Claude Liauzu, Peter Sluglett, Sami Zubaida (eds), Etat, Ville et Mouvements Sociaux au Maghreb et au Moyen Orient /Arab and Muslim Cities; the State, Urban Crisis and Social Movements, Paris, Harmattan, 1989, pp. 301-316.
Times Atlas of World History, 3rd edition, 1989: revised edition, London, Times Books, 1991 (Contributor).
‘Iraq’ and ‘The Middle East 1800-1939’ in Trevor Mostyn and Albert Hourani (eds.) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Middle East and North Africa, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1988, pp. 78-88, 340-348.
Contributor to: Geoffrey Parker (ed.) The World; an Illustrated History, Times Books, London, 1986.
‘The Kurds’ in CARDRI, Saddam's Iraq: Revolution or Reaction?, London, Zed Press, 1986, pp. 177-202.
‘Aspects of Urban Crisis in the Middle East’, Bulletin No 2, Réseau Scientifique et Documentaire Etats/Villes; Rapports Sociaux et Mouvements Urbains dans le Monde Arabe, Université Paris VII, 1985, pp. 18-21.
‘The Kurdish Conundrum’ Gazelle Review, 10, 1982, pp. 68-78.
‘Modern Middle Eastern History’ and ‘Iraq: Modern Political, Social and Economic History’ in D. Grimwood-Jones (ed.) The Middle East and Islam; a Bibliographical Introduction, Zug, Interdocumentation AG, 1979, pp. 54-61, 249-257.
‘Introduction’, ‘The Gulf States’, ‘Iraq’, ‘Israel’, ‘Jordan’, ‘The Kurds’, ‘Lebanon’, ‘Syria’, ‘Yemen’ in The Times Guide to the Middle East, London, HarperCollins, 1996, pp. 7-30, 52-63, 81-105, 106-123, 124-136, 137-154, 155-175, 272-287, 288-305.
‘Iraq and the New World Order’, in Tareq Y. and Jacqueline S. Ismael (eds.), The Gulf War and the New World Order: International Relations of the Middle East. Gainesville, FL, University of Florida Press, 1994, pp. 265-292.
‘Saddam Hussein’; ‘Iraq’, in Joel Krieger (ed.) Oxford Companion to Politics of the World. New York, Oxford University Press, 1993, pp. 405-406, 469-471. Second revised edition, 2001, pp. 375-377, 434-436.
‘Sunnis and Shi'is revisited; sectarianism and ethnicity in authoritarian Iraq’, (reprinted from John P. Spagnolo (ed.), The Modern Middle East in Historical Perspective: Essays in Honour of Albert Hourani, Ithaca Press, Reading, England, 1992), in Derek Hopwood, Habib Ishow, and Thomas Kosinowski (eds.), Iraq: Power and Society. Reading, England, Ithaca Press, 1993, pp. 75-90.
‘L’Irak et le nouvel ordre mondial’, La Pensée, 285, Jan-Fév 1992, pp. 7-28.
‘The Men Around Saddam’, Middle East International, 395, 8 March 1991, pp. 20-21.
‘The Future of Iraq’, Middle East International, 397, 5 April 1991, pp.18-19.
‘Introduction’, ‘The Kurds’, ‘Iraq’, ‘Jordan’, ‘Lebanon’, ‘Syr-ia’, in The Times Guide to the Middle East, London, HarperCol-lins, 1991, pp. 7-30, 51-67, 84-107, 128-139, 140-160, 253-267. (Revised and updated, and published in the United States as the Tuttle Guide to the Middle East, Charles E. Tuttle, Boston, 1992.) Revised and updated, HarperCollins, 1993, 1996.
‘The historiography of modern Iraq’, American Historical Review, 96, 5, 1991, pp. 1408-1421.
‘Sunnis and Shi‘is revisited; sectarianism and ethnicity in authoritarian Iraq', in John P. Spagnolo (ed.), The Modern Middle East in Historical Perspective: Essays in Honour of Albert Hourani, Reading, England, Ithaca Press, 1992, pp. 279-294.
‘The Social Classes and the Origins of the Iraqi Revolution’ in Robert A. Fernea and Wm. Roger Louis (eds.), The Iraqi Revolution of 1958: the Old Social Classes Revisited, London, I. B. Tau-ris, 1991, pp. 118-141.
‘Ba‘thist power and the future of Saddam’, in John Gittings (ed.), Beyond the Gulf War : The Middle East and the New World Order, London, Catholic Institute for International Relations, 1991, pp. 60-66.
‘Iraq since 1986: the Strengthening of Saddam’, Middle East Report, November/ December 1990, No 167, pp. 19-25.
‘How Saddam Rules Iraq’, Middle East International, 383, 14 September 1990, pp. 17-18.
‘Iraq’, ‘Jordan’, ‘Saudi Arabia’, ‘Syria’, in Stuart Mews (ed.), Religion in Politics ; a World Guide, London, Longman, 1989, pp. 116-119, 149-150, 232-233, 262-263.
‘The Iraqi Ba‘th Party’ in Vicky Randall (ed.) Political Parties in the Third World, London, Sage, 1988, pp. 57-74.
‘Iraq’ in Michael Adams (ed.), Handbooks to the Modern World: the Middle East, New York and Oxford, Facts on File, 1988, pp. 376-394.
‘Iraqi Ba‘thism; Nationalism, Socialism and National Socialism’, in CARDRI, Saddam's Iraq: Revolution or Reaction?, London, Zed Press, 1986, pp. 89-107.
‘Early, recent and future research on the modern history of Aleppo: a review and some proposals’, in Kenneth Brown, Michèle Jolé, Jole, Peter Sluglett and Sami Zubaida (eds.), Middle Eastern Cities in Comparative Perspective, London, Ithaca Press, 1986, pp. 283-293.
‘Modern Middle Eastern History’, ‘Iraq’, ‘Syria and Lebanon’ in Paul Auchterlonie (ed)., The Middle East and Islam: a Bibliographical Introduction : Supplement, 1977-1983, Zug, IDC AG, 1986, pp. 103-110, 155-158, 188-192.
‘From Gang to Elite: the Iraqi Ba‘th Party's Consolidation of Power 1968-1975’, Peuples Méditerranéens, 40, July-Sept 1987, pp. 89-114.
‘Aspects of the Changing Nature of Lebanese Confessional Poli-tics; al-Murabitun, 1958-1979’, in Ernest Gellner (ed.), Islamic Dilemmas: Reformers, Nationalists and Industrialization, Berlin, Mouton, 1985, pp. 267-283.
‘Modern Morocco: Political Immobilism, Economic Development’, in R. I. Lawless and A.M. Findlay (eds.) North Africa: Contemporary Politics and Economic Development, London, Croom Helm, 1984, pp. 50-100.
‘The Application of the 1858 Land Code in Greater Syria; Some Preliminary Observations’, in Tarif al-Khalidi (ed)., Land Tenure and Social Transformation in the Middle East, Beirut, American University of Beirut, 1984, pp. 409-424.
‘Not Quite Armageddon: The Impact of the [Gulf] War on Iraq’, MERIP Reports, 125/126, July-September 1984, pp. 22-31.
‘The Transformation of Land Tenure and Rural Social Structure in Central and Southern Iraq, 1870-1958’, International Journal of Middle East Studies, 15, 1983, pp. 491-505.
‘Labour and National Liberation: the Trade Union Movement in Iraq, 1920-1958’, Arab Studies Quarterly, 5, 1983, pp. 139-154.
‘The Precarious Monarchy: Britain, Ibn Sa‘ud, and the Establish-ment of the Kingdom of Hijaz, Najd and Dependencies, 1925-1932’ in T. Niblock (ed.), State, Society and Economy in Saudi Arabia, London, Croom Helm, 1982, pp. 36-57.
‘Achtergronden van de Libanese crisis’ (Background to the Leba-nese crisis), in Spectrum Jaarboek 1982, Utrecht and Antwerp, 1982, pp. 158-162.
‘Aspects of the Changing Nature of Lebanese Confessional Poli-tics; al-Murabitun, 1958-1979’, Peuples Méditerranéens, 20, 1982, pp. 59-74.
‘Twentieth century Iraq; History, Revolution, and Reality’ Current Affairs Bulletin, (Sydney), 66, 1980, pp. 4-15.
‘Iraq’, Middle East Yearbook 1980, London, IC, 1980, pp. 133-142.
‘Haraka niqabat al-‘ummal fi’l-‘Iraq 1920-1958’ (The Trade Union Movement in Iraq 1920-1958), al-Tariq, (Beirut), 3-4, 1980, pp. 133-142.
‘Why Nasser Failed’, Gazelle Review, 7, 1980, pp. 29-32.
‘Iraq; the Path to Independence’, Gazelle Review, 6, 1979, pp. 40-48.
‘Iraq’ and ‘Agriculture in the Middle East’ in Middle East Year-book 1979, London, IC, 1979, pp. 57-60, 116-123.
‘Some reflections on the present state of Sunni/Shi‘i relations in Iraq’, Bulletin of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, 5, 1978, pp. 79-87.
‘Reforming Iraq’, Gazelle Review, 4, 1978, pp. 27-31.