Islamic Imperialism: A History | 
|  | | | Title: | Islamic Imperialism: A History | | Author: | Efraim Karsh | | Publisher: | Yale University Press | | Type: | Book / Paperback | | Publication Date: | 16 May, 2007 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0300122632 / 9780300122633 | | List Price: | $17.00 | | You Save: | $5.44 | | Amazon Price: | $11.56 | |
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From the first Arab-Islamic Empire of the mid-seventh century to the Ottomans, the last great Muslim empire, the story of the Middle East has been the story of the rise and fall of universal empires and, no less important, of imperialist dreams. So argues Efraim Karsh in this highly provocative book. Rejecting the conventional Western interpretation of Middle Eastern history as an offshoot of global power politics, Karsh contends that the region’s experience is the culmination of long-existing indigenous trends, passions, and patterns of behavior, and that foremost among these is Islam’s millenarian imperial tradition.
The author explores the history of Islam’s imperialism and the persistence of the Ottoman imperialist dream that outlasted World War I to haunt Islamic and Middle Eastern politics to the present day. September 11 can be seen as simply the latest expression of this dream, and such attacks have little to do with U.S. international behavior or policy in the Middle East, says Karsh. The House of Islam’s war for world mastery is traditional, indeed venerable, and it is a quest that is far from over.
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• Islamic Imperialism 19 November, 2008
I picked this book up in a lending library of the Unity Church in the people's republic of Boulder. How a book from such a controversial author found its way there is beyond me. This book makes it very clear that our struggle is not about religious conflicts, but about the imperialist desires of the caliphate rulers of Muslim faith beginning with Muhammad. The author introduces his thesis with the following quotes:
· " I was ordered to fight all men until they say "There is no god but Allah""
o Prophet Muhammad's farewell address, March 632
· " I shall cross the sea to their island to pursue them until there remains no one on the face of the earth who does not acknowledge Allah"
o Saladin, January 1189
· "We will export our revolution through out the world...until the calls there is no God but Allah and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah" are echoed all over the world."
o Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini, 1979
· "I was ordered to fight the people until they say there is no God but Allah, and his prophet Muhammad,
o Osama bin Laden, November 2001
Karsh then describes the backdrop history to color in the events those statements spawned. Within the fine brush strokes of this history you discover that Islam has been warring more amongst themselves than they have with infidels. They often found alliances with infidels convenient in their quests to rule their own Muslim world. Case in point; both Iran and Iraq went to the United States to supply their war with each other. This was very common during the crusades. The history is full of egregious Islamic deception rooted in a selfish quest for power.
I have read many books on the diplomacy surrounding war and in particular Islamic rationale for war with the West. They are consistent with Muhammad in his farewell address on the surface. However underneath there is a selfish quest for power on the part of a Caliph gone mad. What this book does is clearly demonstrates that the calls to Allah are mere rhetorical diversions to their real ambitions. Karsh labels it imperialism. A topic of world history in most cases and unfortunately continues as news in our newspapers today.
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• Islamic Imperialism Is Required Reading 23 January, 2008
A religion of peace, my eye! This book carefully and methodically disabuses one of the notion that this "religion" is based on anything but greed and avarice. It is clear that from its beginning fourteen centuries ago the sole intent is to conquer the world, causing everyone to convert, submit, or die. Those who claim otherwise are blind to reality.
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• Islam, The "religion" Of Violence 29 October, 2008
The first two chapters are ALL the reader needs to know.
This book is rather dry historical documentary that jumps around from era to era and often difficult to follow, however; it DOES provide the "wake up call" that the western world MUST be made aware of.
Specifically, the founder of the "religion", their so-called "Prophet" Muhammad, was actually nothing more than a common gangster, who (along with his followers) practiced murder and extortion on a daily basis.
He urged all Muslims to "fight all men until they say, 'there is no God but Allah'". Today's "Islamic Extremists" should be more accurately described as Orthodox Islamic, while those Muslims who pursue peaceful, law-abiding lives are the real "Extremists" who do NOT follow the preachings and ideology of Muhammad (sacreligious?).
Jihad has been ongoing for 15 centuries and will NEVER stop until the entire world is conquered, a warning the west must understand. Those that resist, refuse to pay tribute, or convert to their "religion" are to be killed.
Recommended reading !
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• Israeli Apologist 16 November, 2008
Efraim Karsh is an Israeli apologist who has denied Palestinian rights to either Christians or Muslims, while this is a factual text it only highlights the negative to engender Islamaphobia and greater ignorance.
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• This Book Should Be In Every American Classroom 01 January, 2009
Professor Karsh's "Islamic Imperialism" is a splendid work that comprehensively outlines the sweeping, bloody history of Islamic conquest since the time of the Prophet. Karsh does an excellent job of illustrating Muhammad's practical 7th century concerns that were ultimately resolved by his pragmatic blending of extreme monotheism with imperialistic politics and tribal customs. Thus all matters of mankind, whether spritual, moral or political were in the control of the self-appointed Prophet of Allah. Karsh gives many examples of how resistance to Islamic supremacy has been brutally crushed from developmental times to the present.
Professor Karsh marches the reader through 1,700 years of Islamic efforts to dominate civilizations and how government and religion in Islamic societies has become hopelessly intertwined. "Islamic Imperialism" brings the reader to the very present giving greater clarity to the truth of this ugly subject.
Professor Karsh makes it perfectly clear: "...declaring a holy war against the infidel has been a standard practice of countless imperial rulers and aspirants since the rise of Islam" (p.230). Although Americans usually associate Osama bin Laden-types with jihad, "Islamic Imperialism" concretely establishes how historically universal Islamic jihad has been against the West.
Although the reading can be a little dry at times, this book packs an incredible amount of vital information into less than 250 pages. A must text reading for history, political science and comparative religion classes...although, of course, this will never happen in the politically correct, discrimination-paranoid United States. Other books to read are "Why We Left Islam" and "Bleeding for Allah, Why Islam will Conquer the Free World".
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