Jihad and Islam in World War I

Studies on the Ottoman Jihad on the Centenary of Snouck Hurgronje's Holy War Made in Germany
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-8728-239-4
Verlag: Leiden University Press

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 502 g

Reihe: Debates on Islam & Society

The proclamation of Jihad by the Sultan-Caliph in Constantinople, after the Ottoman Empire’s entry into World War I, made the headlines. This book investigates the background and nature of the Ottoman Jihad proclamation in addition to its effects in the wider Middle East. both among the Arabs and the Turks, and among Sunni Muslims as well as Shi’ites. It brings to light the German hopes for and British fears of a worldwide uprising of Muslims in the colonial empires at that time. Moreover, it scrutinises the fierce academic debates caused by the Jihad proclamation, in which the 1915 manifesto of Leiden Islam scholar Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (“Holy War Made in Germany”) played a key role.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zürcher, Erik-Jan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

List of Figures

Preface

Introduction: The Ottoman Jihad, the German Jihad and the Sacralization of War

Erik-Jan Zürcher

1 Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, “Holy War” and Colonial Concerns

Léon Buskens

2 The Ottoman Proclamation of Jihad

Mustafa Aksakal

3 (Not) Using Political Islam: The German Empire and its Failed Propaganda Campaign in the Near and Middle East, 1914–1918 and Beyond

Tilman Lüdke

4 Domestic Aspects of Ottoman Jihad: The Role of Religious Motifs and Religious Agents in the Mobilization of the Ottoman Army

Mehmet Be.ikçi

5 Ottoman Jihad or Jihads: The Ottoman Sh. Jihad, the Successful One

M.ükrü Hanio.lu

6 Propaganda or Culture War: Jihad, Islam, and Nationalism in Turkish Literature during World War i

Erol Köro.lu

7 Gendering Jihad: Ottoman Muslim Women and War during the Early Twentieth Century

Nicole van Os

8 Architectural Jihad: The “Halbmondlager” Mosque of Wünsdorf as an Instrument of Propaganda

Martin Gussone

9 War, Propaganda and Architecture: Cemal Pasha’s Restoration of Islamic Architecture in

Damascus during World War i

Hans Theunissen

10 The Man Who Would Be Caliph: Shar.fian Propaganda in World War i

Joshua Teitelbaum

11 A German “Illusive Love”: Rash.d Ri¿ d.’s Perceptions of the First World War in the Muslim World

Umar Ryad

12 John Buchan’s British-Designed Jihad in Greenmantle

Ahmed K. al-Rawi

List of Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Zürcher, Erik-Jan
Erik-Jan Zürcher is director of the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, as well as member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Turkish Studies at Leiden University.