Rival jihads: Islam and the Great War in the Middle East, 1914-1918
The Ottoman Empire, under pressure from its ally Germany, declared a jihad shortly after entering the First World War. The move was calculated to rouse Muslims in the British, French and Russian empires to rebellion. Dismissed at the time and since as a ‘jihad made in Germany,’ the Ottoman attempt...
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British Academy
2016
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