Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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.

Reviews

In January 1915, the leading Dutch Orientalist, Christiaan Snouk Hurgronje, published a stinging critique of Turco-German efforts to provoke a pan-Islamic uprising against the Entente powers...One century later another Leiden professor, Erik-Jan Zu¨rcher, one of the leading historians of Turkey, assembled a group of international scholars to revisit Snouk Hurgronje's work and the Turco-German jihad effort in the First World War. Taken together, these essays not only demonstrate the folly of jihad-politics in WWI but the errors of modern advocates of religious war today...In all, the collection of essays in this book cohere remarkably well around the central theme launched by Snouck Hurgronje's wartime critique of Islam politics. A welcome contribution on the role of jihad in WWI, the lessons of one century ago remain tragically relevant in the present day.-- "Journal of Islamic Studies"

"The book is much more than the sum of its chapters. Bringing together some of the leading scholars in the field, Erik Jan Zürcher's volume provides the first comprehensive account of the jihad declaration of the First World War and its consequences. It reveals the remarkable impact the war had on Muslims around the world and, more generally, sheds new light on the geopolitics of Islam in the modern age. It will become a standard work on the subject."--David Motadel, University of Cambridge