Revision 6.8 “The Modern Period, from 1800 to the Present”

    For convenience’s sake, Marshall Hodgson chose 1800 as the beginning of  what he termed the “Modern Period” of Islamic history.  But the event that he had in mind as marking the dawn of the Modern Period in the Middle East actually occurred in 1798.  I quote from Paul Strathern’s fascinating Napoleon in Egypt:   The […]