Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The connected world of empires / C.A. Bayly and Leila Fawaz -- Trade and port cities in the Red Sea-Gulf of Aden region in the sixteenth and seventeenth century / Michel Tuchscherer -- A divided sea: the Cairo coffee trade in the Red Sea area during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / André Raymond -- The Red Sea ports during the revolution in transportation, 1800-1914 / Colette Dubois -- Port cities as nodal points of change: the Indian Ocean, 1890s-1920s / Kenneth McPherson --Haifa at the crossroads: an outpost of the new world order / May Seikaly --Islamic universalism and the construction of regional identity in turn-of-the-century Basra: Sheikh Ibrahim al-Haidari's book revisited / Hala Fattah -- Damascus and the pilgrim caravan / Abdul-Karim Rafeq-- Aspects of economy and society in the Syrian provinces: Aleppo in transition, 1880-1925 / Peter Sluglett -- Representing Copts and Muhammadans: empire, nation, and community in Egypt and India, 1880-1914 / C.A. Bayly --İzmir 1922: a port city unravels / Reşat Kasaba -- Negotiating colonial modernity and cultural difference: Indian Muslim conceptions of community and nation, 1878-1914 / Ayesha Jalal -- The tangled ends of an empire and its sultan / Engin Deniz Akarh -- Racial readings of empire: Britain, France, and colonial modernity in the Mediterranean and Asia / Susan Bayly -- Alexandria: a Mediterranean cosmopolitan center of cultural production / Robin Ostle -- Between politics and literature: journals in Alexandria and Istanbul at the end of the nineteenth century / Elisabeth Kendall -- Printing and urban Islam in the Mediterranean world, 1890-1920 / Juan R.I. Cole -- Space and time on the Indian Ocean rim: theory and history / Sugata Bose.

Christopher A. Miller Gift 2014