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1. What is the significance of Islam in the history of western Asia?
2. What were the main causes and consequences of the creation of an Islamic empire?
3. What have been the main issues concerning political leadership in the history of Islamic western Asia?
4. What have been the main forms of religious expression developed by Muslims, and how have they been institutionalized?
5. What makes a society Islamic?
6. How did the transition from pre-modern to modern states in western Asia affect the Ottoman Empire?
8. What were the main effects of European imperialism in western Asia during the nineteenth century?
9. How would you explain the rise of nationalism in western Asia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries?
10. What was the Eastern Question and how was it resolved?
11. How have the social and economic changes in western Asia during the twentieth century been reflected in politics?
12. How would you explain the growing independence of most states in western Asia since the Second World War?