Destiny Disrupted

296 DESTINY DISRUPTED World War I and the Arab Revolt the British might help him forge it. The British gladly let him think they ...

INDUSTRY, CONSTITUTIONS, AND NATIONALISM 297 EG YPT French Rule Russian Rule D D D The Sykes-Picot Agreement D PERSIA British ...

298 DESTINY DISRUPTED only demanded independence from the Ottomans and Europeans but also from the Hashimites and Saudis. Then t ...

INDUSTRY, CONSTITUTIONS, AND NATIONALISM 299 unconditionally to the Allies, and the three Pashas knew they were in big trouble. ...

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IS ~ Rise of the Secular Modernists 1336-1357 AH 1918-1939 CE B Y I9I9, ASIA MINOR was crawling with French and Italian troops. ...

302 DESTINY DISRUPTED where it might go on thriving as a religion like any other, so long as its ad- herents didn't bother the n ...

RISE OF THE SECULAR MODERNISTS 303 What was his vision? To break the authority of the ulama in Turkey, un- seat Islam as the arb ...

304 DESTINY DISRUPTED did not fully wink out until the end ofWorld War I. The same was true of the khalifate. When Atatiirk abol ...

RISE OF THE SECULAR MODERNISTS 305 opposite: suddenly, women were forced to wear head scarves and men were beaten for appearing ...

306 DESTINY DISRUPTED It would be quite plausible to say that at this point, Islam as a world- historical narrative came to an e ...

RISE OF THE SECULAR MODERNISTS 307 For that audience their message had resonance, especially in India. When they spoke of a glor ...

308 DESTINY DISRUPTED the treasury. Anyone who knows what the Taliban did in Afghanistan at the end of the century will recogniz ...

RISE OF THE SECULAR MODERNISTS 309 Hassan Banna saw his fellow Egyptians earnestly struggling to learn Eu- ropean languages and ...

310 DESTINY DISRUPTED outgrew even its identity as a political movement and became more of a pan- demic low-level insurgency-see ...

RISE OF THE SECULAR MODERNISTS 311 also suggested creating a neutral "League of Nations" to adjudicate interna- tional issues, s ...

312 DESTINY DISRUPTED J :) ''I.., IRAN Division of the Arab World: The Mandates Plan Hashemite patriarch. Ibn Saud went on to co ...

RISE OF THE SECULAR MODERNISTS 313 quickly developed a full-fledged (secular modernist) independence move- ment, of course, whic ...

314 DESTINY DISRUPTED Britain decided to make no grand decision about Palestine at all, but to deal with events de facto as they ...

RISE OF THE SECULAR MODERNISTS 315 You might wonder what sort of king would sell his country's entire stock of any mineral known ...