The Salafi Jihadi movement in Jordan, the beginnings of which can be traced back to the early 1990s, is a group of disparate entities afforded by a single characteristic. These entities played a key role in shaping the political behavior of this current, as well as in formulating its relationship with the state and security...Read More

John Buchan (1875–1940) was the director of British Intelligence in the last two years of World War i and a novelist, too. His novel, Greenmantle (1916), examined the decaying stages of the Ottoman empire with a specific focus on radical Islamic movements. Greenmantle reveals Buchan’s Western elitist views and the continuation of his imperialist conviction...Read More

During World War i two camps for Muslim prisoners of war were established in Wünsdorf and Zossen about 50km south of Berlin: the Halbmondlager and the Weinberglager. In the Halbmondlager a mosque was built and a cemetery for the prisoners was located in the nearby village of Zehrensdorf. (Fig. 8.1) These efforts were not an...Read More

In November 1914 the fatwas issued by the Shaykh ül Islam Hayri Efendi, in which Muslims were called upon to take up arms against those who attacked Islam, who seized and looted Muslim countries and who made the Muslim populations captive, were read to an audience of allegedly almost 100,000 Muslims at the Fatih Mosque...Read More