British Understandings of the Sanussiyya Sufi Order’s <i>Jihad</i> against Egypt, 1915–17

Slight, John

doi:10.1080/00358533.2014.898506

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“…One report, admittedly focusing on Tripolitania and Fezzan rather than Niger, suggests that the population of these regions fell from 650,000 to 250,000 (61.5%) during the height of the Senussi Wars and subsequent repression, from 1916-1919. 108 It is not hard to imagine that the Aïr shared a similarly gruesome fate.…”

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“…114 European relationships with Islam across Africa in the late 1800s and early 1900s had been nuanced and fluid, moving between persecution, surveillance, and facilitation based on changing circumstances and changing colonial leadership. 115 The strain of war and ramped-up fears regarding Islamic 'fanaticism' saw the French pursue brutal repression in Algeria and Niger from 1917. This repression was targeted at Muslims in Niger, and justified by thin appeals to French misperceptions of Islamic law in Algeria.…”

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Islam and Anti-Colonial Rebellions in North and West Africa, 1914–1918

Krause

2020

Hist. J.

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European empires experienced widespread anti-colonial rebellions during the First World War. These rebellions occurred for many different reasons, reflecting the diversity of context and history across colonial societies in Africa and Asia. Religion naturally played a strong role in most of the anti-colonial rebellions during the First World War, most prominently Islam. This article looks at the role Islam played in two key anti-colonial rebellions in North and West Africa: the rebellions in Batna, Algeria, and the Kaocen War in Niger, respectively. The article examines how Islam was instrumentalized by rebels, imperial collaborators, and French officers and administrators to further their own ends. Rebels called upon Islam to help inspire anti-colonial movements, to bind together diverse populations, and to contextualize their actions in wider socio-political conflicts. Imperial collaborators likewise called on religious authority to assist with European imperial recruitment efforts. French officers and administrators used Islam both as a justification and a target for collective punishment and repression after the rebellions were put down from 1917. This repression is still under-studied in a period usually portrayed as evidencing broad imperial harmony, rather than violent extraction and oppression.

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Islam and Anti-Colonial Rebellions in North and West Africa, 1914–1918

Krause

2020

Hist. J.

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Anglo-French Connections and Cooperation against “Islamic” Resistance, 1914–1917

Slight

2019

Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies

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Aftershocks of the First World War in the Nile Valley

Gayffier-Bonneville¹

2018

The First World War From Tripoli to Addis Ababa (1911-1924)

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Because imperial metropoles displayed a sense of weakness and needed the help of the countries they ruled, the First World War brought about a temporary reversal in the relations between imperial metropoles and colonial possessions. As a result, colonial subjection was shaken. The case of the Nile Valley is very interesting from this point of view: there is successively a growing British request, an Egyptian reaction at the end of the war, and soon after a counter reaction of British authorities southwards.We will study the impact of WWI on Egypt that determined the claim for independence as soon as the military conflict ended. In order to curb the spreading of nationalist ideas through Sudan, the British General Governor of Sudan worked out a scheme for separating Egypt and Sudan. This study stresses the link between the developments in Egypt and in Sudan after WWI. The Sudanese crisis of 1924, and particularly the British firmness, is closely connected to the Egyptian political changes that occurred at the end of the war. French diplomatic archives give a very interesting and not yet explored point of view on these events.

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British Understandings of the Sanussiyya Sufi Order’s Jihad against Egypt, 1915–17

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Islam and Anti-Colonial Rebellions in North and West Africa, 1914–1918

Islam and Anti-Colonial Rebellions in North and West Africa, 1914–1918

Anglo-French Connections and Cooperation against “Islamic” Resistance, 1914–1917

Aftershocks of the First World War in the Nile Valley

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