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Crusade and jihad the thousand-year war between the Muslim world and the global north

"Crusade and Jihad is the first book to encompass, in one volume, the entire history of the catastrophic encounter between the Global North--China, Russia, Europe, Britain, and America--and Muslim societies from Central Asia to West Africa. William R. Polk draws on more than half a century of e...

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Main Author: Polk, William R. (William Roe) 1929-2020 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven Yale University Press [2018]
Series:The Henry L. Stimson lectures
Subjects:
Crusades > History
Jihad > History
War > Religious aspects
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Table of Contents:
  • Part one. Glorious Memories and Agonizing Awakening. The social, economic, and cultural bases of Islam
  • Muhammad the messenger and his message
  • The caliphate and the conquests
  • The great days of the caliphates and the evolution of Islam
  • The North moves South
  • Part two. The Responses of Traditional Muslim societies. Sultan Selim III, Napoleon and Mehmet Ali
  • French invasion and Algerian resistance
  • The British conquest of India and the Sepoy Revolt
  • Chechen Imam Shamil resists Russian imperialism
  • œt Bankers on horseback
  • Sudanese Mahdiyah and the British conquest
  • Sanusiyah Imam Umar al-Mukhtar against Italian genocide
  • The Riff War and Abd al-Karim in Morocco
  • The Aceh war and Dutch imperialism
  • Jamal al-Din al-Afghani and the Muslim awakening
  • Part three. The Shift to Secular Nationalism. The struggle to define identity
  • The first Iranian revolution
  • The First World War
  • The postwar Middle East
  • Palestine, the much promised land
  • Turkey and Atatürk
  • œt Reza Shah of Iran
  • ˜t Islam in India and the formation of Pakistan
  • Kashmir, the Palestine of Central Asia
  • œt Islam in Southeast Asia
  • Afghanistan's centuries of resistance
  • The Silk Road
  • The Algerian revolution
  • Nasser and Arabiyah
  • Saddam Husain and Iraq
  • Part four. The Reassertion of Islam. Iran, the revolutionary Shiah Muslim state
  • The Muslim Brotherhood
  • The philosopher of the Muslim revolt, Sayyid Qutb
  • Palestine: wars, diaspora, and failed state
  • Hizbullah, stateless nation
  • Gaza and Hamas
  • The Uyghurs and Chinese Islam
  • Part five. Militant Islam. The Moro 'rebellion' in the Philippines
  • Somalia, the "failed state"
  • Boko Haram and Nigeria
  • Usama bin Ladin and al-Qaida
  • The Islamic State
  • Part six. Afterword : The Parable of the Blind Brahmins. Trunks and tails
  • What the North did to the South
  • What the South did to itself
  • Where we are now and where we can go
  • Encompasses the entire history of the catastrophic encounter between the Global North--China, Russia, Europe, Britain, and America--and Muslim societies from Central Asia to West Africa, explaining the deep hostilities between them and how they grew over the centuries--Adapted from publisher description

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