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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
Part One: Glorious Memories and Agonizing Awakening
1 The Social, Economic, and Cultural Bases of Islam
2 Muhammad the Messenger and His Message
3 The Caliphate and the Conquests
4 The Great Days of the Caliphates and the Evolution of Islam
5 The North Moves South
Part Two: The Responses of Traditional Muslim Societies
6 Sultan Selim III, Napoleon, and Mehmet Ali
7 French Invasion and Algerian Resistance
8 The British Conquest of India and the Sepoy Revolt
9 Chechen Imam Shamil Resists Russian Imperialism
10 Bankers on Horseback
11 Sudanese Mahdiyah and the British Conquest
12 Sanusiyah Imam Umar al-Mukhtar against Italian Genocide
13 The Riff War and Abd al-Karim in Morocco
14 The Aceh War and Dutch Imperialism
15 Jamal al-Din al-Afghani and the Muslim Awakening
Part Three: The Shift to Secular Nationalism
16 The Struggle to Define Identity
17 The First Iranian Revolution
18 The First World War
19 The Postwar Middle East
20 Palestine, the Much Promised Land
21 Turkey and Atatürk
22 Reza Shah of Iran
23 Islam in India and the Formation of Pakistan
24 Kashmir, the Palestine of Central Asia
25 Islam in Southeast Asia
26 Afghanistan’s Centuries of Resistance
27 The Silk Road
28 The Algerian Revolution
29 Nasser and Arabiyah
30 Saddam Husain and Iraq
Part Four: The Reassertion of Islam
31 Iran, the Revolutionary Shiah Muslim State
32 The Muslim Brotherhood
33 The Philosopher of the Muslim Revolt, Sayyid Qutb
34 Palestine: Wars, Diaspora, and Failed State
35 Hizbullah, Stateless Nation
36 Gaza and Hamas
37 The Uyghurs and Chinese Islam
Part Five: Militant Islam
38 The Moro “Rebellion” in the Philippines
39 Somalia, the “Failed State,”
40 Boko Haram and Nigeria
41 Usama bin Ladin and al-Qaida
42 The Islamic State
Part Six: Afterword: The Parable of the Blind Brahmins
43 Trunks and Tails
44 What the North Did to the South
45 What the South Did to Itself
46 Where We Are Now and Where We Can Go
Notes
Glossary
Acknowledgments
Index
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