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Summary. Between 1914 and 1918, both the Ottoman Empire and Germany engaged in a propaganda campaign to foster jihad amongst the world’s Muslims. While the Ottomans – concentrating more on Muslims on the home front than beyond Ottoman boundaries – fared rather well, German efforts to raise Muslims to anti-colonial revolts failed rather miserably.
Many among the Ottoman elites viewed the First World War as an opportunity to revitalize their recently defeated nation. The one-party state under the Union and Progress Party mobilized the empire’s population and engaged in various propaganda campaigns in order to sustain the war effort.
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. – David Motadel, author of
9 mar 2021 · This essay discusses the background of the German-Ottoman axis, the change of the jihad doctrine, and the call for a “partial jihad” to ignite “war by revolts” in the Allies’ Muslim-majority colonies.
8 lip 2014 · 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.
From the beginning the 1914 Ottoman jihad proclamation was portrayed. Allies as the linchpin of a German scheme to revolutionize Muslim populations. territories of Berlin's enemies: in British Egypt and India, in French North Africa, the Russian Caucasus and Central Asia.
1 lut 2016 · This book resurrects that largely forgotten aspect of the war, investigating the background and nature of the proclamation, as well as its effects in the wider Middle East, the fears it stoked among German and British military leaders, and the accompanying academic debates about holy war and Islam.
