Religion, Economy and State in Ottoman-Arab History is a selection of essays by Professor William Ochsenwald on the Arab history under the Ottoman rule. The Arabian territory was under the control of the Ottoman Empire from the 16th century until the early years of the 20th, which left an abundance of written documents not only in the Ottoman archives but also in the archives of the European states, such as Britain, which had political and economic relations with the Arabs and Ottomans. On the basis of his comprehensive research on these written evidences, Professor Ochsenwald presents a political history of the relations between the Ottomans and Arabs, together with an extensive economic, religious and social account of Arabia and its periphery. Moreover, interactions of Europeans and Ottoman-Arabs are discussed also including such controversial subjects as cultural conflicts, slavery, massacres and nationalism.

• TABLE OF CONTENTS (page 6)
• OTTOMAN SOURCES FOR THE HISTORY OF THE HIJAZ (page 13)
• AN ANNOTATED SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR THE HISTORY OF THE HIJAZ (page 23)
• THE RECENT HISTORI OGRAPHY OF WESTERN ARABIA: ACRITICALEXAMINATION (page 27)
• THE FINANCIAL BASIS OF OTTOMAN RULE IN THE HIJ AZ,1840-1877 (page 35)
• OTTOMAN SUBSIDIES TO THE HIJAZ 1877-1886 (page 55)
• THE COMMERCIAL HISTORY OF THE HIJAZ VILAYET,1840-1908 (page 65)
• MUSLIM-EUROPEAN CONFLICT IN THE HIJAZ: THE SLAVE TRADE CONTROVERSY,1840-1895 (page 89)
• THE JIDDA MASSACRE OF 1858: INTRODUCT ION (page 105)
• THE WESTERN REACTION: BOMBARDMENT (page 114)
• IRONIC ORIGINS: ARAB NATIONALISM IN THE HIJAZ,1882-1914 (page 123)
• THE VILAYET OF SYRIA,1901-1914:A RE- EXAMINATION OF DIPLOMATIC DOCUMENTS AS SOURCES (page 137)
• THE VILAYET OF SYRIA,1901-1914: A RE- EXAMINATION OF DIPLOMATIC DOCUMENTS AS SOURCES (page 137)
• THE IMPACT OF OTTOMAN RULE ON YEMEN,1849-1914 (page 163)
• THE FINANCING OF THE HIJAZ RAILROAD (page 175)
• DONATION OUTSIDE THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE (page 184)
• OPPOSITION TO POLITICAL CENTRALIZATION IN SOUTH JORDAN AND THE HIJAZ,1900-1914 (page 195)
• ISLAM AND THE OTTOMAN LEGACY IN THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST (page 219)