Crusade and jihad The thousand-year war between the Muslim world and the global north
Book - 2018
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.
- Subjects
- Published
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New Haven :
Yale University Press
[2018]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Item Description
- "The Henry L. Stimpson Lectures at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale"--Title page verso.
- Physical Description
- xviii, 632 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 537-587) and index.
- ISBN
- 9780300222906
- Introduction
- Part 1. Glorious Memories And Agonizing Awakening
- 1. The Social, Economic, and Cultural Bases of Islam
- 2. Muhammad the Messenger and His Message
- 3. The Caliphate and the Conquests
- 4. The Great Days of the Caliphates and the Evolution of Islam
- 5. The North Moves South
- Part 2. The Responses Of Traditional Muslim Societies
- 6. Sultan Selim III, Napoleon, and Mehmet Ali
- 7. French Invasion and Algerian Resistance
- 8. The British Conquest of India and the Sepoy Revolt
- 9. Chechen Imam Shamil Resists Russian Imperialism
- 10. Bankers on Horseback
- 11. Sudanese Mahdiyah and the British Conquest
- 12. Sanusiyah Imam Umar al-Mukhtar against Italian Genocide
- 13. The Riff War and Abd al-Karim in Morocco
- 14. The Aceh War and Dutch Imperialism
- 15. Jamal al-Din al-Afghani and the Muslim Awakening
- Part 3. The Shift To Secular Nationalism
- 16. The Struggle to Define Identity
- 17. The First Iranian Revolution
- 18. The First World War
- 19. The Postwar Middle East
- 20. Palestine, the Much Promised Land
- 21. Turkey and Atatürk
- 22. Reza Shah of Iran
- 23. Islam in India and the Formation of Pakistan
- 24. Kashmir, the Palestine of Central Asia
- 25. Islam in Southeast Asia
- 26. Afghanistan's Centuries of Resistance
- 27. The Silk Road
- 28. The Algerian Revolution
- 29. Nasser and Arabiyah
- 30. Saddam Husain and Iraq
- Part 4. The Reassertion Of Islam
- 31. Iran, the Revolutionary Shiah Muslim State
- 32. The Muslim Brotherhood
- 33. The Philosopher of the Muslim Revolt, Sayyid Qutb
- 34. Palestine: Wars, Diaspora, and Failed State
- 35. Hizbullah, Stateless Nation
- 36. Gaza and Hamas
- 37. The Uyghurs and Chinese Islam
- Part 5. Militant Islam
- 38. The Moro "Rebellion" in the Philippines
- 39. Somalia, the "Failed State,"
- 40. Boko Haram and Nigeria
- 41. Usama bin Ladin and al-Qaida
- 42. The Islamic State
- Part 6. Afterword: The Parable Of The Blind Brahmins
- 43. Trunks and Tails
- 44. What the North Did to the South
- 45. What the South Did to Itself
- 46. Where We Are Now and Where We Can Go
- Notes
- Glossary
- Acknowledgments
- Index