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Crusade and Jihad, The thousand-year war between the Muslim world and the global north, William R. Polk

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William R. Polk

The Henry L. Stimson lectures

The thousand-year war between the Muslim world and the global north

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 southPart 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 awakeningPart 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 IraqPart 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 IslamPart 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 StatePart 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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