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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Like all books, this one would not have existed without the help and support of friends, colleagues, spouses, and children (though in this particular case, the children in question were either preverbal or not yet born). I also benefitted enormously from that newfangled creation, the Internet and its attendant features, such as the comprehensive used-book network created by
Amazon.com
and
B&N.com
that allowed me to assemble a considerable library delivered to my door overnight.
My passion for this subject goes back almost as long as I can remember, but not until my freshman year in college was I introduced to the early history of Islam and the West, in a class taught by Richard Bulliet of Columbia. Not only was he an astonishing lecturer with acute and quirky insights into a long and complex history, but he became a friend and mentor for the next decade and a half, and he has remained a central inspiration. He also offered invaluable advice on the manuscript for this book. Subsequent teachers and colleagues were equally vital, especially the late Albert Hourani of St. Antony’s College, Oxford, who guided me gently but firmly toward a more rigorous approach to the past. I owe a debt as well to Derek Hopwood, Rashid Khalidi, Roy Mottahedeh, Roger Owen, and Avi Shlaim.
Though I once knew Arabic, working knowledge has faded, and I benefitted from the assistance of Ja’far Muhibullah in tracking down both old and new Arabic texts and translating select passages. In a related vein, Koray Caliskan provided Ottoman-era documents and contemporary Turkish scholarship to broaden my perspective of the empire and its governance. And LeeAnna Keith once again came to the rescue and did the arduous work of culling through twentieth-century articles on the contemporary Middle East.
Perspective on one’s own writing is always difficult, and a number of people generously spent time critiquing and correcting my prose, my interpretations, and my facts. Though I doubt the final text is free from problems in any of these areas, their input can only have improved it. Bruce Feiler, Fareed Zakaria, Gideon Rose, Steven Cook, and Timothy Naftali, dear friends all, and my father, David Karabell (who remains my Platonic ideal of the perfect reader), made me rethink the framework and the tone. Both Zachary Lockman and Rashid Khalidi then went through the later sections line-by-line and forced me to hone my earlier drafts. I cannot thank all of them enough.
It has been more than ten years since John Hawkins agreed to represent me, and I do not know what I would have done without him. As an agent, he has done what any great agent does, but as a friend, he has been more supportive and generous with his time than I ever could have asked. And along with John, Moses Cardona has again made sure that the trains ran on time.
For this work as for others, I have been blessed with an editor whose acumen and pitch-perfect sense for what works and what doesn’t makes all of his authors better writers. Ash Green has taught me more about books and writing than I could have imagined, and has done so with fewer words than I might have thought possible. His assistants Luba Ostashevsky and Sara Sherbill have also been invaluable. In England, I owe thanks to Caroline Knox, Gordon Wise, and Eleanor Birne of John Murray in its several incarnations, and each has also added to the manuscript and made possible its final publication.
At Knopf, I have once again been in the capable and astute hands of a marketing and publicity team that includes Sarah Gelman, Nicholas Latimer, and Kathy Zuckerman, all of whom have done their utmost to see that the book gets heard in a noisy, busy world; at John Murray in London, the effervescent Lucy Dixon has done the same. And to Sonny Mehta, thank you for once again gracing this book with your support.
Finally, my wife and companion Nicole Alger read and reread and through it all (and it was a long haul for this one) made her adamant, unwavering support unequivocally clear—even with a toddler in tow and one on the way, with Griffin and then Jasper filling the house with tumult and love. I hope this book makes a contribution to our sometimes-wrenching present, but they are what matters.
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