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Rival jihads: Islam and the Great War in the Middle East, 1914-1918
- Abstract:
- 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 to turn the Great War into a holy war failed to provoke mass revolt in any part of the Muslim world. Yet, as German Orientalists predicted, the mere threat of such a rebellion, particularly in British India, was enough to force Britain and its allies to divert scarce manpower and materiel away from the main theatre of operations in the western front to the Ottoman front. The deepening of Britain’s engagement in the Middle Eastern theatre of war across the four years of WWI can be attributed in large part to combating the threat of Jihad.
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.5871/JBA/004.001
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- 2011–12 Thank-Offering to Britain: Research Fellowship
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- British Academy
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- Proceedings of the British Academy More from this journal
- Volume:
- 4
- Pages:
- 1-20
- Publication date:
- 2016-01-19
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0068-1202
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- Copyright date:
- 2016
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- © The British Academy 2016. Elie Kedourie Memorial Lecture 2014. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from the British Academy at: [10.5871/JBA/004.001]
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