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In Search Of Unity

30 Thursday Oct 2014

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Gamal Abdel Nasser, Hashemite, House of Saud, Hussein bin Ali, Mecca, Medina, Middle East, Muhammad Ibn Saud, Ottoman Empire, Persian Gulf, Sharif of Mecca, World War I

Arab attachment to the British ArmyWith the rise of the House of Saud, the Arab world had another contender for power in the Persian Gulf. After several attempts of the Saud family to take over the area, the Saudi found itself in conflict with various tribal clans that go back to the days of the Ottoman Empire.

During the first rise of the House of Saud, under Muhammad Ibn Saud, attacked and captured the cities of Mecca and Medina, clearly in the Hashemite locus of control. Years later, with World War I at the beginning of World War I, because the British approached Hussein bin Ali, the Sharif of Mecca, to join them in their cause in attacking the Ottoman Empire in the hopes of distracting the Turks in their aid of the Germans during the war. However, once the British withdrew their support of Hussein bin Ali after the First World War, Ibn Saud immediately went after Hussein bin Ali’s land of the Hejaz. Continue reading →

Jihad Or Just Expansionism

22 Wednesday Oct 2014

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colonialism, Egypt, expansionism, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Heja, House of Saud, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, Muslim, Nadj, Ottoman Turks, Pan Arabism, Rashidun Caliphs, Salafiyya, Umayyads, Wahabbi

muhammad-bin-abdul-wahab In the late 1700’s, the House of Saud began an era of expansionism via the ideology of the Wahabbi Islamic movement. In 1744 Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab created an alliance with the House of Ibn Saud. This alliance was based on a fundamental form of Sunni belief of an older Salafiyya doctrine. Ibn Saud’s felt that by creating an army of holy warriors, driven by an idea rather than a person, he can expand his tribal empire across the Nadj and eventually into the Hejaz. Although not technically colonialism, it is a form of expansionism.

Colonialism can take the form of an ideology as well. In the 1950’s Gamal Abdel Nasser took control of Egypt. Nasser had a plan to rule the Arab world, not by force, but with his political views of Pan Arabism. Similar to the House of Saud and the Wahabbi movement, Nasser planned to unite the Arab countries under him with an ideology with Egypt as the core and the Arab peninsula as the center of a new Arab world. Although Nasser didn’t conquer any other lands, however, the ideals of Pan Arabism did influence the mind of Saddam Hussein.

Before the Ottoman Turks the Rashidun Caliphs and then the Umayyads, the Arabs rapidly expanded the territory under Muslim control outside of Arabia. Muslim colonialism expanded from the Arabian Peninsula, through Northern Africa to the Iberian Peninsula. Unlike the Saudi example or the example of Pan Arabism, the expansionist efforts of the Umayyads and the Rashidun Caliphs is a true form of colonialism. However, it may be that the ideology of Nasserism and Pan Arabism may continue to exist longer than these tow Caliphates.

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