Focusing on Near Eastern history in Mamluk and Ottoman times, this book dedicated to Michael Winter, stresses elements of variety and continuity in the history of the Near East between the 13th and 18th centuries.

This annual record of political developments in the Middle East is designed as a continuing, up-to-date reference for scholars, researchers and analysts, policy-makers, students and journalists. It examines in detail the rapidly-changing Middle-Eastern scene in all its complexity. This volume covers the eruption of the Gulf crisis and the war that had dramatic effects on all the countries of the Middle East.