Introduction: The Middle East, from transition to development / Sami G. Hajjar -- Middle East oil and economic development / Abbas Alnasrawi -- Spatial aspects of demographic change in the Arab world / Basheer K. Nijim -- Modernization and political development in the Middle East / J. Leo Cefkin -- The so-called Renaissance of Islam / Antonie Wessels -- Education and political development in the Middle East / Nancy W. Jabbra and Joseph G. Jabbra -- The processes of administrative c