: Expanding the Crescent from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean (1880s-1930s)
\ Amal N. Ghazal
New York, NY
: Routledge
, 2010.
xiv, 171 p.
Culture and civilization in the Middle East
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This book examines the relationship between Islam and nationalism and the evolution of identity politics. Bridging African and Arab histories and giving a cross-national and cross-regional analysis of movements of religious reform, nationalism and anti-colonialism, its wide geographical coverage ranges from Zanzibar on the Indian Ocean through to Oman into the Mediterranean.