Encyclopedia of Islam

Further reading: George Alan, Jordan: Living in the 

Crossfire (London: Zed Books, 2005); Joseph Massad, 

Colonial Effects: The Making of National Identity in 

Jordan (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001); 

Abd al-Raman Munif, Story of a City: A Childhood 

in Amman (London: Quartet Books, 1996); Eugene 

Rogan,  Frontiers of the State in the Late Ottoman 

Empire: Transjordan 1850–1921 (New York: Cambridge 

University Press, 1999); Jillian Schwedler, Faith in 

Moderation: Islamist Parties in Jordan and Yemen (New 

York: Cambridge University Press, 2006); Avi Shlaim, 

The Politics of Partition: King Abdullah, the Zionists, and 

Palestine 1921–1951 (New York: Oxford University 

Press, 1998).