Britain & Islam
An eye-opening history of Britain and the Islamic world-a thousand-year relationship that is closer, deeper, and more mutually beneficial than is often recognized. In this broad yet sympathetic survey-ranging from the Crusades to the modern day-Martin Pugh explores the social, political, and cultura...
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New Haven
Yale University Press
2019
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Table of Contents:
- Islam: 'a kind of Christianity'?
- The myths of the Crusades
- The impact of the Reformation
- India and the Anglo-Muslim love affair
- Britain and the management of Islamic decline
- The Victorians, Islam and the idea of progress
- Islam: westernising or orientalist?
- The Great War and the re-drawing of the Ottoman Empire
- Islam, democracy and nationalism after the Second World War
- Muslims and the crisis of British national identity
- Islamophobia
- Muslims in the British mainstream