Contents
Preface / v
Note On Translıteratıon / xii
I. ‘Iraq And The Turkısh Conquest / 1
§ 1. The country in 1500 (1).
§ 2. Races and society (8).
§ 3. The recent past (12).
§ 4. The Persian occupation and the Turkish threat (16).
§ 5. Sultan Sulaiman (21).
II. The Sıxteenth Century / 2 7
§ 1. Hopes and fears for ‘Iraq as a Turkish province (27).
§ 2. Internal‘Iraq, 1534 to 1620(29).
§ 3. The fringes (38).
§ 4. The Government (46).
III. The Su Bashi And Sultan Murad / 51
§ 1. Bakr the Su Bashi, 1621 to 1623 (51). § 2. The second
Persian occupation (56). § 3. Hafidh Ahmad (58). § 4. A
respite and a second failure (63).
§ 5. Sultan Murad, 1638 (68).
IV. The Seventeenth Century / 75
§ 1. Character of‘Iraq history, 1639 to 1704 (75).
§ 2. The tribal map in the seventeenth century (77).
§ 3. Baghdad and its rulers, 1639 to 1704 (81).
§ 4. Northern ‘Iraq (95).
V. The Prınce of Basrah / 99
§ 1. The line of Afrasiyab (99).
§ 2. The Gulf, 1622 to 1700 (105).
§ 3. Decline of the House of Afrasiyab (108).
§ 4. The end of Husain Pasha (115).
§ 5. A generation of vicissitude (118).
VI. Battles of Giants / 123
§ 1. Hasan Pasha (123).
§ 2. The first campaigns: Sunni
against Sunni (128).
§ 3. Nadir Quli and the siege of Baghdad (134).
§4. The lame Deliverer (140).
§5. The end of the struggle (146).
§ 6. ‘Iraqin war-time, 1722 to 1747 (154).
VII. The Slaves / 163
§ 1. Abu Lailah (163).
§ 2. ‘Ali and ‘Umr (172).
§ 3. Baban and Persian (177).
§ 4. Homo homini lupus (180).
VIII. Sulaıman the Great / 187
§ 1, The siege and occupation of Basrah (187).
§ 2. Accession of the Great Pasha: the man and the times (195).
§ 3. Tribes and vassals, 1780 to 1802 (200).
§ 4. The Wahhabis (212).
§ 5. End of the Great Pasha (217).
IX. The Later Mamluks / 221
§ 1. Three short reigns (221).
§ 2. The Wahhabis, 1802 to 1810 (229).
§ 3. The Shahrizor, 1802 to 1813 (231).
§ 4. Sa'id Pasha (234).
§ 5. The last Mamluk (239).
§ 6. The raids from Karmanshah (242).
X. The End of an Epoch / 250
§ 1. A last glance at Mamluk ‘Iraq (250).
§ 2. The change of times (253). § 3. Act of man and act of God (262).
§ 4. The fall of Baghdad (267). § 5. ‘Ali Ridha (274).
XI. FROM THE MAMLUKS TO MIDHAT PASHA . 277
§ 1. Imperial and foreign relations, 1831 to 1869 (277).
§ 2. The phenomena of Reform (280).
§ 3. Personalities of the period (282).
§ 4. The extension of direct rule (284).
§ 5. Tribal policy, 1838 to 1869 (288).
§6. The new communications (292).
XII. The Later Nıneteenth Century / 298
§ 1. Midhat Pasha (298).
§ 2. Expansion in Arabia (301).
§ 3. The new policy of Settlement (305).
§ 4 The Government of ‘Iraq at the close of the nineteenth century (312).
§ 5. Retrospect and Judgement (320).
Appendıces:
I. Sources of the present Work / 327
II. Genealogical Tables / 346
III. Contemporary Monarchs of Turkey and Persia / 350
IV. Islamic and Christian Chronology / 351
Glossary / 353
Index of Sources / 357
General Index / 361
List of Illustrations
Midhat Pasha. From the Life of Midhat Pasha, 1903 (Mr. John Murray) / frontispiece
The Arch of Ctesiphon in 1747. From Ives' Journey / 17
Nadir Shah. From a portrait in the possession of the India Office, by permission of the Council of India / facing p. 148
Hillah in 1818. From Porter’s Travels / 208
A bazaar in Mosul, 1816. From Buckingham’s Travels in Mesopotamia / 236
Procession of the Pasha leaving the Sarai Mosque, 1816. From Buckingham’s Travels in Mesopotamia / 236
Lıst of Maps
Baghdad Neighbourhood (Seventeenth Century). page / 83
Baghdad City (Seventeenth Century) / 83
Mosul in 1743 (after Niebuhr) / 151
Basrah (about 1775) / 189
Basrah Neighbourhood / 189
Ethnological Administrative and Tribal Sketch Map of ‘Iraq in the late Nineteenth Century / al end | 
