Islam Political Impact 1908–1972

The documents in this collection recall the decisive events in the historical record and provide evidence of the shaping of Islamic relations and policies. The contents include diplomatic correspondence and reports describing the following: the Young Turks movement and political events in Turkey before WWI; affairs of the Caliphate and the Sherif of Mecca; the rise to power of Ibn Saud, subsequently King Abdul Aziz; affairs of Islamic groups, including the Akhwan; the Senoussi; the Druses; etc; 1919 Peace Conference arrangements and implications for the Muslim world; the fall of Hejaz and Mecca to Ibn Saud, 1925; 'first Moslem Congress,' 1926; pan-Islamic movements in the 1920s, and others, including Wahhabism, Mahdism; the Palestine question and the Arab cause, 1930s; the Muslim Brotherhood after World War Two; India–Pakistan relations, 1940s et seq and events in Algeria, 1956 et seq. Notes on Shia relations are found for various places and periods.

• Presents a large collection of primary source documents surveying the political impact of Islam, not only in the heartland of Islam and the Arabian peninsula, but across a large number of countries, including Egypt, Libya and the Maghreb; Sudan and Nigeria; the Soviet Union; the Balkan region; Iran, Central Asia and India; Indonesia; China and Japan
• Previously unknown or fragmented material, from British archive sources, is now available in a coherent collection with primary source documents carefully selected and described for maximum value to researchers and scholars