The early Ottoman and Safavid Persian period (fourteenth-eighteenth centuries) -- Iraq and the region (1798-1872) -- Iraq and the region (1865-1914) -- Iraq, the region, and the globe (1914-1918) : World War I -- Events leading to the outbreak of the 1920 revolt (1918-1920) -- Further details of the 1920 revolt (1918-1921) : a seminal event of Iraqi nationalism -- Towards the formation of the kingdom of Iraq (1920-1923) -- Weakening Ottoman control of Arabia before World War I -- Prince Feisal ibn Hussein (1918-1921) : from king of Syria to king of Iraq -- The rise and fall of Hussein ibn Ali : king of the hijaz and sherief of Mecca -- The rise of ibn Saud and decline of Hashemites in Arabia