Crusade and jihad [electronic resource] : the thousand-year war between the Muslim world and the global north / William R. Polk.

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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 descrip...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Henry L. Stimson lectures, Yale University.
Main Author: Polk, William R. (William Roe), 1929-2020 (Author)
Language:English
Published: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2018]
Series:Henry L. Stimson lectures, Yale University.
Subjects:
Crusades > History.
Jihad > History.
War > Religious aspects.
Islamic civilization.
Civilization, Western.
Islam > History.
World history.
Online Access:
EBSCO eBooks: 2018 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2018 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
Thousand-year war between the Muslim world and the global north
1000 year war between the Muslim world and the global north
Crusade and Jihad: The Thousand-Year War Between the Muslim World and the Global North
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • 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 conquests
  • 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
  • Afghanistan's centuries of resistance
  • The Silk Road
  • The Algerian revolution
  • Nasser 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.