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Islam and Nazi Germany's War Hardcover – 25 Nov 2014

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  • Hardcover: 512 pages
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press (25 Nov. 2014)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0674724607
  • ISBN-13: 978-0674724600
  • Product Dimensions: 3.8 x 15.9 x 23.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 211,942 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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An original contribution to the modern history of Islam, David Motadel s book is a powerful and timely reminder of Western colonial efforts to manipulate and mobilize jihadist rhetoric in the service of empire. --Robert D. Crews, Stanford University"

Motadel's treatment of an unsavoury segment of modern Muslim history is as revealing as it is nuanced. Its strength lies not just in its erudite account of the Nazi perception of Islam but also in illustrating how the Allies used exactly the same tactics to rally Muslims against Hitler. - The Independent

Thanks for David Motadel s exhaustive scholarship we now have the first comprehensive study of German policy towards Islam during the Second World War . In fact, it is even more than that, since it explores the roots of Nazi policy in Imperial Germany and the Great War and follows its tracks through the Weimar years into the Third Reich. --Literary Review

Islam and Nazi Germany s War is the first book to provide an in-depth study of this complex relationship, charting its twists and turns as Hitler's paladins sought to bring Muslims onside. It is academically impeccable, drawing on a wealth of archival resources in a multitude of languages, yet it wears its erudition lightly. In the current climate, a subject such as this might be considered controversial. Motadel, however, is never less than resolutely serious and rigorous. The whiff of sensationalism never offends the nostrils. [...] Motadel s book is a brilliantly original study that achieves that rare feat of combining rigour with accessibility. Most impressively, in the hugely crowded field of the second world war and Nazi Germany it manages to explore an area of profound significance that had previously been overlooked." --Financial Times

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David Motadel is Research Fellow in History at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge.

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4.0 out of 5 starsAmbitious well researched study, but also with some open questions
By History Reader on 24 Aug. 2015
Format: Hardcover
This ambitious, well researched study explores under-publicized German efforts to "promote an alliance with the Muslim world against their alleged common enemies, most notably the British Empire, the Soviet Union, and the Jews" (1). David Motadel (Univ. of Cambridge) has gathered a trove of engaging materials from over thirty archives in fourteen countries; his footnotes occupy nearly a third of his book. It is an important story well told. Yet, something is missing.

Despite the conjunction in its title, this is rather a history of Islam in Nazi Germany's wartime thinking and propaganda. Motadel is not especially concerned with how various groups of Muslims welcomed, resisted, or just ignored Germany's efforts to engage them against the Allied powers, both western and Soviet. There is little here about Muslim views of Nazism, beyond those expressed by a few disaffected intellectuals and prominent collaborators who made the trip to see the Führer. This is, rather, a tale of Islam's place in the worldview of leading Nazi "thinkers" and commanders in the Wehrmacht and the Waffen SS.

Motadel establishes that Muslims became relevant to Berlin only in 1941–42, in direct response to the Reich's shifting battlefield fortunes in the Middle East, the Balkans, and especially on the Eastern Front. The end of easy victories during deep territorial penetrations by German armies made several Muslim-populated regions key arenas of operations within a wider strategic world war. For a brief period in late 1942, these new war zones seemed poised to become decisive theaters in the war.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsHitler's Muslim moment
By Ashtar Command on 9 April 2015
Format: Hardcover
“Islam and Nazi Germany's War” is a book about how Hitler's Third Reich, with varied degrees of success, attempted to win the allegiance of various Muslim groups. Books of this kind usually concentrate on the notorious Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin Al-Husayni (often spelled Al-Husseini) and his personal dealings with Adolf Hitler. By contrast, David Motadel gives the reader a more panorama-type overview of Nazi strategy and tactics towards the Muslim populations of the Middle East and North Africa, the Balkans and the occupied territories of the Soviet Union. The Grand Mufti is mentioned, of course, but only as one player among many. Motadel also attempts to place the Nazi wooing of Muslims in a broader context.

Germany attempted to win the Muslim world already during World War I, even instigating a formal call for jihad against the Allies from the caliphate of Constantinople and a similar call from the Shia Muslims at Najaf. At the time, both Constantinople and Najaf were controlled by the mostly Muslim Ottoman Empire, a German ally. These calls for a jihad fell on deaf ears, however. The Ottoman Empire was ruled by the Young Turks, a modernizing movement regarded as apostate by traditional Muslims, who therefore considered this particular exhortation to “holy war” hypocritical. Despite the failure, the idea of a German-Muslim alliance against Britain and France became a staple of right-wing German “geopolitics” after the war. The Nazis were initially indifferent to the Muslim question, since Hitler's original strategy was to expand towards Russia, letting Britain, France and Italy keep their colonial possessions in Africa, the Middle East and South Asia. After the defeat of France, Hitler permitted the collaborationist Vichy regime to keep the French colonial possessions.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsAn insightful and erudite account of the Second World War ...
By Anna on 29 Nov. 2015
Format: Hardcover
An insightful and erudite account of the Second World War in the lands of Islam. The geographical scope of the book is breathtaking, spanning from North Africa to the Eastern Front.
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