Empire and Jihad : the Anglo-Arab wars of 1870-1920 /
The Ottoman Sultan called for a "Great Jihad" against the Entente powers at the start of the First World War. He was building on half a century of conflict between British colonialism and the people of the Middle East and North Africa. Resistance to Western violence increasingly took the f...
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New Haven :
Yale University Press
[2021]
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| Acesso em linha: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1sfsdr5 |
Sumário:
- Introduction
- Part I. Black ivory, white Nile
- 1. Heart of darkness
- 2. The mountains of the moon
- 3. A ruckle of bones
- Part II. Star and crescent
- 4. Baker Pasha
- 5. Gordon Pasha
- 6. Egypt for the Egyptians?
- 7. All Sir Garnet
- Part III. The black flag
- 8. A Muslim prophet
- 9. A Christian mystic
- 10. A modern crusader
- Part IV. The spectre o f Jihad
- 11. An Islamic caliphate
- 12. Omdurman
- 13. A 'Mad Mullah'
- 14. The Kaiser's war
- Conclusion.