Crusade and Jihad : the thousand-year war between the Muslim world and the global north / William R. Polk.
2018
D157 .P56 2018eb
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Title
Crusade and Jihad : the thousand-year war between the Muslim world and the global north / William R. Polk.
ISBN
9780300231908 (electronic bk.)
0300231903 (electronic bk.)
9780300222906
0300222904
0300231903 (electronic bk.)
9780300222906
0300222904
Published
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
Copyright
©2018
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xviii, 632 pages) : illustrations, maps
Call Number
D157 .P56 2018eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1017758085
Summary
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 experience as a historian, policy planner, diplomat, peace negotiator, and businessman to explain the deep hostilities between the Muslim world and the Global North and show how they grew over the centuries. Polk shows how Islam arose and spread across North Africa into Europe, climaxed in the vibrant and sophisticated caliphate of al-Andalus in medieval Spain, and was the bright light in a European Dark Age. Simultaneously, Islam spread from the Middle East into Africa, India, and Southeast Asia. But following the Mongol invasions, Islamic civilization entered a decline while Europe began its overseas expansion. Portuguese buccaneers dominated the Indian Ocean; the Dutch and the English established powerful corporations that turned India and Indonesia into colonies; Russian armies pushed down the Volga into Central Asia, destroying its city-states; and the Chinese Qing dynasty slaughtered an entire Central Asian people. Britain crushed local industry and drained off wealth throughout its vast colonies. Defeated at every turn, Muslims tried adopting Western dress, organizing Western-style armies, and embracing Western ideas. None of these efforts stopped the conquest. For Europe and Russia, the nineteenth century was an age of colonial expansion, but for the Muslim world it was an age of brutal and humiliating defeat. Millions were driven from their homes, starved, or killed, and their culture and religion came under a century-long assault. In the twentieth century, brutalized and disorganized native societies, even after winning independence, fell victim to "post-imperial malaise," typified by native tyrannies, corruption, and massive poetry. The result was a furious blowback. A sobering, scrupulous, and frank account of imperialism, colonialism, insurgency, and terrorism, Crusade and Jihad is history for anyone who wishes to understand the civilizational conflicts of today's world. -- from dust jacket
Note
"The Henry L. Stimpson Lectures at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale"--Title page verso
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 537-587) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
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.
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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Henry L. Stimson lectures, Yale University.
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Print version: Polk, William R. (William Roe), 1929- Crusade and Jihad. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
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