Title Sacred interests : the United States and the Islamic world, 1821-1921 / Karine V. Walther

Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015] ©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 457 pages) : illustrations Contents Part 1. The United States and the Eastern question -- The United States and the Greeks, 1821-1869 -- The United States and Bulgarian independence. 1876-1878 -- part 2. Jewish-American activism in the Islamic world -- Jewish American activism in the Ottoman Empire and Morocco, 1840-1878 -- Spreading empire and civilization in Morocco, 1878-1906 -- part 3. The United States and the "Moro problem" in the Philippines -- Understanding and classifying the United States' "Mohammedan wards" in the Philippines, 1898-1905 -- Extending American colonial governance over Filipino Muslims, 1903-1920 -- part 4. Resolving the Eastern question -- The United States and the Armenian massacres, 1894-1896 -- The United States, World War I, and the end of the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1921 Summary "In Sacred Interests, Karine V. Walther excavates the deep history of Americans' Islamophobic fixation on how Muslims should be governed, controlled, converted, and colonized, showing how these ideas shaped American foreign relations from the early republic to the end of the Armenian Genocide in 1921. Beginning with the Barbary Wars, Walther illuminates reactions to and involvement in the breakup of the Ottoman Empire, the efforts to protect Christians and Jews from Muslim authorities in Northern Africa, colonization of the Philippines, and the Armenian Genocide. Even in instances where the U.S. government was not formally involved, American missionaries and activists played crucial roles in these events, drawing conclusions and lessons that they would pass on and apply to subsequent interventions. Americans' interest in Islam abroad became critical to a larger American narrative: diplomatic, cultural, political, and religious beliefs about Islam and Muslims hardened and became self-fulfilling as Americans continued to encounter Muslims throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-434) and index Notes Print version record Subject Eastern question. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General. HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century. Diplomatic relations Eastern question SUBJECT United States -- Foreign relations -- Islamic countries -- History Islamic countries -- Foreign relations -- United States -- History Islamic countries -- Foreign relations -- United States Subject Islamic countries United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781469625416 1469625415 9781469625409 1469625407

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