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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Faulkner, Neil (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2021]
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.