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By Karine V. Walther

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ISBN-13: 9781469625393

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through the 19th and early 20th centuries, as american citizens more and more got here into touch with the Islamic global, U.S. diplomatic, cultural, political, and non secular ideals approximately Islam started to form their responses to global occasions. In Sacred Interests, Karine V. Walther excavates the deep heritage of yank Islamophobia, exhibiting how unfavorable perceptions of Islam and Muslims formed U.S. international relatives from the Early Republic to the tip of worldwide battle I.

Beginning with the Greek warfare of Independence in 1821, Walther illuminates reactions to and involvement within the breakup of the Ottoman Empire, the efforts to guard Jews from Muslim experts in Morocco, American colonial guidelines within the Philippines, and American makes an attempt to help Christians throughout the Armenian Genocide. Walther examines the yankee position within the peace negotiations after global battle I, aid for the Balfour statement, and the institution of the mandate approach within the heart East. the result's an essential exploration of the an important position the U.S. performed within the Islamic global throughout the lengthy 19th century--an interplay that formed a ancient legacy that continues to be with us today.

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