Jihad and Islam in World War I : Studies on the Ottoman Jihad on the Centenary of Snouck Hurgronje's "Holy War Made in Germany" /

Today's headlines are full of references to jihad and jihadists, but they're nothing new: a century ago, the entry of the Ottoman Empire into World War I was accompanied by a loud proclamation of jihad as well. This book resurrects that largely forgotten aspect of the war, investigating th...

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Other Authors: Zürcher, Erik Jan (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016
Series:Debates on Islam and society.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction : the Ottoman jihad, the German jihad and the sacralization of war / Erik-Jan Zürcher
  • Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, "holy war" and colonial concerns / Leon Buskens
  • The Ottoman proclamation of jihad / Mustafa Aksakal
  • (Not) using political Islam : the German Empire and its failed propaganda campaign in the Near and Middle East, 1914-1918 and beyond / Tilman Lüdke
  • Domestic aspects of Ottoman jihad : the role of religious motifs and religious agents in the mobilization of the Ottoman Army / Mehmet Beşikçi
  • Ottoman jihad or jihads : the Ottoman Shīʻī jihad, the successful one / M. Şükrü Hanioğlu
  • Propaganda or culture war : jihad, Islam, and nationalism in Turkish literature during World War I / Erol Köroğlu
  • Gendering jihad : Ottoman Muslim women and war during the early twentieth century / Nicole van Os
  • Architectural jihad : the "Halbmondlager" Mosque of Wünsdorf as an instrument of propaganda / Martin Gussone
  • War, propaganda and architecture : Cemal Pasha's restoration of Islamic architecture in Damascus during World War I / Hans Theunissen
  • The man who would be Caliph : Sharīfian propaganda in World War I / Joshua Teitelbaum
  • A German "illusive love" : Rashīd Riḍā's perceptions of the First World War in the Muslim world / Umar Ryad
  • John Buchan's British-designed jihad in Greenmantle / Ahmed K. al-Rawi.