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Baghdad; metropolis of the Abbasid caliphate. / by Wiet, Gaston,1887-1971.(CARDINAL)124412;
Bibliography: pages 179-180.
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The Caliph and the Imam : the making of Sunnism and Shiism / by Matthiesen, Toby,1984-author.(CARDINAL)865681;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 731-900) and index.Prologue: From Karbala to Damascus -- Part I. The formation of Sunnism and Shiism, 632-1500. After the Prophet ; Sunni reassertion and the Crusades ; Polemics and confessional ambiguity -- Part II. The shaping of Muslim empires, 1500-1800. The age of confessionalisation ; Muslim dynasties on the Indian subcontinent ; Reform and reinvention in the eighteenth century -- Part III. Empire and the state, 1800-1979. British India and orientalism ; Ottoman reorganisation and European intervention ; The mandates ; The Muslim response -- Part IV. Revolution and rivalry, 1979-. The religion of martyrdom ; Export and containment of revolution ; Regime change ; The arab uprisings -- Conclusion: Every place is Karbala."The authoritative account of Islam's schism that for centuries has shaped events in the Middle East and the Islamic world. In 632, soon after the Prophet Muhammad died, a struggle broke out among his followers as to who would succeed him. Most Muslims argued that the leader of Islam should be elected by the community's elite and rule as Caliph. They would later become the Sunnis. Others-who would become known as the Shia-believed that Muhammad had designated his cousin and son-in-law Ali as his successor, and that henceforth Ali's offspring should lead as Imams. This dispute over who should guide Muslims, the Caliph or the Imam, marks the origin of the Sunni-Shii split in Islam. Toby Matthiesen explores this hugely significant division from its origins to the present day. Moving chronologically, his book sheds light on the many ways that it has shaped the Islamic world, outlining how over the centuries Sunnism and Shiism became Islam's two main branches, and how Muslim Empires embraced specific sectarian identities. Focussing on connections between the Indian subcontinent and the Middle East, it reveals how colonial rule and the modern state institutionalised sectarian divisions and at the same time led to pan-Islamic resistance and Sunni and Shii revivalism. It then focuses on the fall-out from the 1979 revolution in Iran and the US-led military intervention in Iraq. As Matthiesen shows, however, though Sunnism and Shiism have had a long and antagonistic history, most Muslims have led lives characterised by confessional ambiguity and peaceful co-existence. Tensions arise when sectarian identity becomes linked to politics. Based on a synthesis of decades of scholarship in numerous languages, The Caliph and the Imam will become the standard text for readers looking for a deeper understanding of contemporary sectarian conflict and its historical roots"--
Subjects: ʻĀʼishah, approximately 614-678.; ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Caliph, approximately 600-661.; Muḥammad, Prophet, -632; Islam; Shīʻah; Sunnites;
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When James Gordon Bennett was caliph of Bagdad / by Crockett, Albert Stevens,1873-1969.(CARDINAL)490776;
Subjects: Biographies.; Bennett, James Gordon, 1841-1918.; Old State Library Collection.;
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They will have to die now : Mosul and the fall of the caliphate / by Verini, James,author.(CARDINAL)797399;
Zahra -- Nineveh we are coming -- They will have to die now."A searing narrative of the Battle of Mosul, described by the Pentagon as "the most significant urban combat since World War II." In this masterpiece of war journalism based on months of frontline reporting, National Magazine Award winner James Verini describes the climactic battle in the struggle against the Islamic State. Focusing on two brothers from Mosul and their families, a charismatic Iraqi major who marched north from Baghdad to seize the city with his troops, rowdy Kurdish militiamen, and a hard- bitten American sergeant, Verini describes a war for the soul of a country, a war over and for history. Seeing the battle in a larger, centuries- long sweep, he connects the bloody- minded philosophy of the Islamic State with the ancient Assyrians who founded Mosul. He also confronts the ways that the American invasion of Iraq not only deformed that country, but also changed America like no conflict since Vietnam"--
Subjects: IS (Organization);
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Shatter the nations : ISIS and the war for the Caliphate / by Giglio, Mike(Journalist),author.(CARDINAL)816843;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Prologue. Mosul, Iraq. February 2017 -- Part I. Beginnings -- The Martyr-New York City. January 2011 -- Leo-Damascus, Syria. March 2011 -- Border-Antakya, Turkey. July 2012 -- Revenge-Cairo, Egypt. August 2013 -- Part II. Terror -- Signs-Eastern Syria. November 2013 -- Abu Ayman-Antakya, Turkey. February 2014 -- Fear-Baghdad, Iraq. June 2014 -- Eagle-Sinjar, Iraq. August 2014 -- Arrivals-Istanbul, Turkey. September 2014 -- Frontier-Reyhanli, Turkey. October 2014 -- Beheading-Gaziantep, Turkey. December 2014 -- Gateway-Istanbul, Turkey. December 2014 -- Dinner-Antakya, Turkey. January 2015 -- Bodies and Bombs-Erbil, Iraq. February 2015 -- Passports-Istanbul, Turkey. May 2015 -- Artifacts-Reyhanli, Turkey. June 2015 -- Breaking Point-Sanliurfa, Turkey. August 2015 -- Death Comes to You-Sinjar, Iraq. November 2015 -- Defectors-Sanliurfa, Turkey. January 2016 -- Foreigners-Berlin, Germany. March 2016 -- Part III. Mosul -- Counter-Terror-Kalak, Iraq. Thirty miles east of Mosul. October 2016 -- Armies in the Night-Khazir, Iraq. Twenty-two miles east of Mosul. October 2016 -- Commandos-Al-Qosh, Iraq. Thirty miles north of Mosul. October 2016 -- "Move Slow, No Bleeding."-Topzawa, Iraq. Six miles east of Mosul. October 2016 -- Base Camp-Bazwaya, Iraq. Three miles east of Mosul. October 2016 -- Key West-Qayyarah, Iraq. Forty miles south of Mosul. October 2016 -- "Put Down Your White Flag."-Mosul, Iraq. Gogjali district. November 2016 -- Election Day, Mosul-Iraq. Saddam district. November 8, 2016 -- Comrades Outside-eastern Mosul, Iraq. November 2016 -- The President-Antakya, Turkey. January 2017 -- Drifting-Mosul, Iraq. Hay al-Noor district. February 2017 -- Bleeding-Mosul, Iraq. Tel al-Rayan district. February 2017 -- Casualties-Mosul, Iraq. May 2017 -- Epilogue: Escape-Istanbul, Turkey. September 2017.The war against ISIS and the so-called caliphate it declared across Syria and Iraq was a battle to define not just the Middle East but the wider world. Growing from the aftermath of the U.S. war in Iraq and a brutal civil war in Syria, ISIS sought to usher in a new era of conflict as it launched terrorist attacks across Europe, while inflicting a savage extremism on the population in controlled. And the U.S. developed a new kind of war to stop it - one that that relied heavily on the sacrifices of local soldiers who fought on behalf of the American cause. This struggle came to a climax in the Iraqi city of Mosul, the crown jewel of the caliphate, in the deadliest urban combat the world had seen in a generation. Few journalists got as close to the war, and to protagonists on both sides of it, as Mike Giglio, who spent six years reporting on the rise and fall of the ISIS proto-state. He traveled along the Turkey-Syria border with the smugglers and operatives who worked in ISIS's criminal and financial networks, accompanied antiquities traders to visit stolen artifacts that helped to fund the ISIS war effort, sat with human traffickers at the heart of the migrant crisis, met with ISIS defectors as they tried to free their minds from its grip, and embedded with local soldiers on the front lines. Behind the drama on the battlefield, the suspense was in how much ISIS might change the world before its cities fell and how many of America's allies it could kill along the way. This is a chilling portrait of the destructive power of extremism, and of the tenacity and astonishing courage required to defeat it.
Subjects: Giglio, Mike; IS (Organization);
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Black banners of ISIS : the roots of the new caliphate / by Wasserstein, David,author.(CARDINAL)717742;
Includes bibliographical references and index.A medieval Islam historian's incisive portrait of ISIS, revealing the group's deep ideological and intellectual roots in the earliest days of Islam With tremendous speed, the Islamic State has moved from the margins to the center of life in the Middle East. Despite recent setbacks, its ability to conquer and retain huge swaths of territory has demonstrated its skillful tactical maneuvering, ambition, and staying power. Yet we still know too little about ISIS, particularly about its deeper ideology. In this eye-opening book, David J. Wasserstein offers a penetrating analysis of the movement, looking closely at the thousand-year-old form of Islamic apocalyptic messianism the group draws upon today. He shows how ISIS is not only a military and political movement but also, and primarily, a religious one with a coherent worldview, a patent strategy, and a clear goal: the re-creation of a medieval caliphate. Connecting the group's day-to-day activities and the writings and sayings of its leaders with the medieval Islamic past, Wasserstein provides an insightful and unprecedented perspective on the origins and aspirations of the Islamic State
Subjects: IS (Organization); Terrorism; Terrorism; Caliphate.; Messianism.; Islamic fundamentalism;
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The heirs of Muhammad : Islam's first century and the origins of the Sunni-Shia split / by Rogerson, Barnaby.(CARDINAL)769080;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 396-402) and index.
Subjects: ʻĀʼishah, approximately 614-678.; ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Caliph, approximately 600-661.; approximately 614-678.; Caliph, 600 (approximately )-661.; Islam;
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The history of the Saracens; comprising the lives of Mohammed and his successors, to the death of Abdalmelik, the eleventh caliph. / by Ockley, Simon,1678-1720.(CARDINAL)182094;
Subjects: Caliphs.; Islam.; Old State Library Collection.;
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The Ottomans : khans, caesars, and caliphs / by Baer, Marc David,1970-author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 472-524) and index.Introduction: the white castle -- The beginning: Gazi Osman and Orhan -- The sultan and his converted slaves: Murad I -- Resurrecting the dynasty: Bayezid I, Mehmed I, and Murad II -- Conquering the second Rome: Mehmed II -- A Renaissance prince: Mehmed II -- A pious leader faces enemies at home and abroad: Bayezid II -- Magnificence: from Selim I to the first Ottoman caliph, Suleiman I -- Sultanic saviours -- The Ottoman age of discovery -- No way like the 'Ottoman way' -- Harem means home -- Bearded men and beardless youths -- Being Ottoman, being Roman: from Murad III to Osman II -- Return of the Gazi: Mehmed IV -- A Jewish messiah in the Ottoman palace -- The second siege of Vienna and the sweet waters of Europe: from Mehmed IV to Ahmed III -- Reform: breaking the cycle of rebellion from Selim III to Abdülhamid II -- Looking within: the Ottoman Orient -- Saving the dynasty from itself: young Turks -- The genocide of the Armenians and the first world war: Talat Pasha -- The end: Gazi Mustafa Kemal -- Conclusion: the Ottoman past endures."Ever since an Ottoman army led by Mehmed II conquered Constantinople in 1453, it has been common to see the Ottoman Empire as the Islamic, Asian antithesis of the Christian, European West. But in reality the Ottoman dynasty ruled a multiethnic, multilingual, and multireligious empire that stretched across parts of Europe, Africa, and Asia. The Ottomans: Sultans, Khans, and Caesars offers a bold new history of this empire that straddled East and West for nearly five hundred years and negotiated the challenges of religious difference in ways that had a profound influence on the emergence of our modern world. As historian Marc David Baer shows, the Ottomans enjoyed a tripartite inheritance as they rose from a frontier principality to a world empire. The dynasty's origins can be traced to the tribes of Turks and Tatars pushed westward into Anatolia by Mongol expansion in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. But it was equally indebted to the Islamic scholars and Sufi sheikhs who proselytized Islam across this region and legitimated Ottoman rule. And from the Byzantine empire they supplanted, the Ottomans borrowed bureaucracy, culture, and claims to universal rule as the successors of Rome. Ottoman rulers did not only call themselves khans and sultans, but also caliphs, emperors, and caesars. The Ottomans managed their diverse empire by striking a delicate balance: amid a profoundly hierarchal society, they pioneered the principles and practices of toleration of religious minorities, even as they also freely used religious conversion to integrate conquered peoples into the imperial project. Indeed, the Ottomans were the only world empire to rely on converts to make up its ruling dynasty and to populate its military and administrative leadership. By receiving them as converts to Islam, they brought everyone from Byzantine and Serbian royalty to enslaved captives to common herdsmen into the elite fold as princesses, statesmen, and battlefield commanders. It was only in the final decades of the nineteenth century that the Ottomans began to turn away from this approach, trying to save the empire by making it into an exclusively Ottoman Muslim polity, and then into a Turkish one. The tragic consequence was ethnic cleansing and genocide, and the dynasty's demise in the wake of the First World War. For better and for worse, the Ottoman Empire was as magnificent and as horrible as any of its European contemporaries. The Ottomans reveals its history in full, showing how again and again it remade the world from the Renaissance and the Enlightenment to the dawn of a brutal century world war"--
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The house of war : the struggle between Christendom and the Caliphate / by Mayall, Simon V.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.\\ "A powerful new history detailing the most significant military clashes between Islam and Christendom over the 1,300 years of the Muslim caliphate. From the taking of the holy city of Jerusalem in the 7th century AD by Caliph Umar, to the collapse of the Ottoman Empire following the end of World War I, Christian popes, emperors and kings, and Muslim caliphs and sultans were locked in a 1300-year battle for political, military, ideological, economic and religious supremacy. In this powerful new history of the era, acknowledged expert on the history of the Middle East and the Crusades Simon Mayall focuses on some of the most significant clashes of arms in human history: the taking and retaking of Jerusalem and the collapse of the Crusader states; the fall of Constantinople; the sieges of Rhodes and Malta; the assault on Vienna and the 'high-water mark' of Ottoman advance into Europe; culminating in the Allied capture of Jerusalem in World War I, the final collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the dissolution of the sultanate and the caliphate, and the formation of modern Europe and the modern Middle East. The House of War offers a wide, sweeping narrative, encompassing the broad historical and religious context of this period, while focusing on some of the key, pivotal sieges and battles, and on the protagonists, political and military, who determined their conclusions and their consequences."-
Subjects: Islam; Christianity and other religions;
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