Part I: Managing and Employing Violence
- Chapter 1: Mapping and Scaling Urban Violence: The 1800 Insurrection in Cairo (pp. 29-51)
- Chapter 2: A Capital Challenge: Managing Violence and Disorders in Late Ottoman Istanbul (pp. 52-69)
- Chapter 3: Gendered Obscenity: Women’s Tongues, Men’s Phalluses and the State’s Fist in the Making of Urban Norm in Interwar Egypt (pp. 70-88)
Part II: Symbolic Politics of Violence
- Chapter 4: Urban Violence, the Muharram Processions and the Transformation of Iranian Urban Society: The Case of Dezful (pp. 91-110)
- Chapter 5: Symbolic Politics and Urban Violence in Late Ottoman Jeddah (pp. 111-138)
Part III: Communal Violence and its Discontents
- Chapter 6: The 1850 Uprising in Aleppo: Reconsidering the Explanatory Power of Sectarian Argumentations (pp. 141-163)
- Chapter 7: The City as a Stage for a Violent Spectacle: The Massacres of Armenians in Istanbul in 1895–96 (pp. 164-178)
- Chapter 8: Transforming the Holy City: From Communal Clashes to Urban Violence, the Nebi Musa Riots in 1920 (pp. 179-194)
Part IV: Oil Cities: Spatiality and Violence
- Chapter 9: On Lines and Fences: Labour, Community and Violence in an Oil City (pp. 197-221)
- Chapter 10: Reading Oil as Urban Violence: Kirkuk and Its Oil Conurbation, 1927–58 (pp. 222-242)
- Chapter 11: Structural and Physical Violence in Saudi Arabian Oil Towns, 1953–56 (pp. 243-264)
Afterword
- Urban Injustice, Urban Violence and the Revolution: Reflections on Cairo (pp. 265-286)
