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by E Karsh (Author) "According to Muslim tradition, it all began one night during the latter part of Ramadan, the ninth month of the lunar year, around the year..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Yale University Press; Updated Ed edition (28 May 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0300122632
  • ISBN-13: 978-0300122633
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.7 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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"'Anyone interested in the debate about the place of Islam in the modern world should read this book... Karsh offers a new approach. He rejects the condescending approach of the apologists and the hateful passion of the Islamophobes. Instead he presents Islam as a rival for Western civilization in what is, after all, a contest for shaping the future of mankind.' Amir Taheri, The Sunday Telegraph 'His narrative helps explain the rage and the sheer hopelessness of so much Muslim engagement with modern politics.' Charles Moore, The Telegraph 'Karsh has produced an impeccable history of how the Muslim mainstream has behaved towards its neighbours... I could not recommend this magnificent effort of reportage and analysis more highly. Efraim Karsh, Professor of Mediterranean Studies at King's College London, is well on his way toward claiming the crown of a new generation of scholars of Islam and I wish him luck. We need him.' Hazhir Teimourian, Literary Review"


Edmund Bosworth, Times Literary Supplement, January 2008

'... he [Karsh] has performed a signal service in providing an explanation for much of what has been going on in the Middle East during the last century or so.'
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According to Muslim tradition, it all began one night during the latter part of Ramadan, the ninth month of the lunar year, around the year 610 C.E. Muhummad ibn Abdallah, a forty-year-old merchant from the town of Mecca in the Hijaz, the northwestern part of the Arabian Peninsula, was sleeping soundly in a cave on nearby Mount Hira, where he used to spend several nights at a time in prayer and meditation, when he was suddenly awoken by a heavenly voice telling him that he was the Messenger of God. Read the first page
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36 of 42 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars excellent guide, 11 May 2008
By Dhimmi (London) - See all my reviews
The so called University student above is incorrect, the authors handling of the Koran is accurate and in keeping with Islamic mainstream teaching throughout Islamic history. This book sobers one from the drunken stupor the West is in concerning the true nature of Islam.
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102 of 124 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The importance of Charles Martel, Don John of Austria and Jan Sobieski, 22 Oct 2006
By Pieter "Toypom" (Johannesburg) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Islamic Imperialism: A History (Hardcover)
This opus magnum is a powerful antidote to decades of fraudulent post-modernist "scholarship" by people like inter alia Edward Said, that sought to demonise the West and exalt the so-called "Other."

Karsh chronicles the imperial ambitions of Islam from its 7th century beginning to its manifestations in the 21st century. The end of the Ottoman Empire after World War I halted imperialist designs by the established state. The struggle was then taken up by ideologues like Hassan al-Banna and Sayyid Qutb, whence organizations like Hamas and Al-Qaeda draw their inspiration.

Besides terror tactics, other means of furthering the religion's expansionist aims are demographic increase through emigration to Europe and high birthrates, and using the West's self-destructive creed of multiculturalism to steadily erode our freedom and undermine our societies.

This may be witnessed today in Europe where the situation has become so alarming thet even the Pope has noticed. The rapid unfolding of events is forming a pattern that cannot be ignored: The Madrid and London bombings, the murder of Theo van Gogh, the Danish cartoon uproar, the low-level French Intifada. These events are well-known, but most people are unaware of the constant outpouring of hatred for Christians and Jews through the Arab state-controlled media.

The first part of the book studies Islamic history up to the 20th century whilst the second part deals with the last 100 years. It includes discussions of the Ummayyads, Abbasids, Fatimids, Seljuks, Mameluks, Sassanids and Ottomans. It has been said: "It's not what we do, but what we are." The author reveals that the root cause of jihad is the tradition and teaching of Islam. Three expansionist thrusts down the ages were stopped by Charles Martel, Don John of Austria and Jan Sobieski.

Amongst the many clarifications in this valuable work are the persistent Islamic yearning for the reconquest of Spain, Nasser's Pan-Arabism as a phase of the imperial dream, why the entire non-Muslim world is called Dar al-Harb (The House of War), how the much maligned crusades were attempts to halt the imperial advance and liberate the holy places of Christendom and how little sympathy Arab regimes have for the Palestinians, and the fact that they view Israel as a colonial extension of the West.

The author concludes that conditions for ordinary Arabs and Muslims would only improve once their political elites abandon all Pan-Arab and Pan-Islamic aspirations and allow the religion to become a private faith. There are no indications of any such tendency. In fact it seems that Europe's homegrown but alienated immigrant communities are becoming more militant, fed on a stream of hatred by the imams and the state media of the Arab autocracies.

Although a scholarly work, the narrative of Islamic Imperialism is lucid and engaging. I also recommend Dream Palace Of The Arabs by Fouad Ajami, Menace in Europe by Claire Berlinski, While Europe Slept by Bruce Bawer, Because They Hate by Brigitte Gabriel and Londonistan by Melanie Phillips.
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18 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Islamic Imperialism, 1 May 2008
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An excellent and informative read. Can't recommend it highly enough and an antidote to all the self loathing books produced by western academics over the last few decades.
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