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 exper...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Polk, William R. (William Roe), 1929-2020 (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
Colección:Henry L. Stimson lectures, Yale University.
Temas:
Crusades > History.
Jihad > History.
War > Religious aspects.
Croisades > Histoire.
Jihād > Histoire.
Guerre > Aspect religieux.
HISTORY > World.
HISTORY > Middle East > General.
History.
Crusades
Jihad
War > Religious aspects
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 conquest
  • 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
  • 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
  • Reza Shah of Iran
  • Islam in India and the formation of Pakistan
  • Kashmir, the Palestine of Central Asia
  • Islam in Southeast Asia
  • Afghanistans's centuries of resistance
  • The Silk Road
  • The Algerian revolution
  • Nassar 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.

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