Acknowledgments
Note on Translation and Transliteration
Maps
Introduction
PART I Imagining the East
1.Morning in Cairo
2.Whose Caliphate
3.The Poetic East
PART II Capital of the East
4.Abyssinia in the Headlines
5.Palestine HQ
PART III Ambassadors of the East
6.The Diplomats
7.The Delegation
8.The Feminists 167Contents
PART IV The East at War
9.Hearts and Minds
10.No Way Back
Epilogue Midnight in Delhi
Dramatis Personae
Notes
Bibliography
Index