# Islam and war > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Islam_and_war > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Islam_and_war.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_war > Source revision: 1355891026 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|Interaction between religion and warfare}} {{other uses|Muslim warfare (disambiguation){{!}}Muslim warfare}} {{Lead too short|date=July 2020}} {{Islam |expanded=related}} From the time of [Muhammad](/source/Muhammad), the [final prophet of Islam](/source/Muhammad_in_Islam), many [Muslim states and empires](/source/List_of_Muslim_empires_and_dynasties) have been involved in warfare. The concept of [Jihad](/source/Jihad), the religious duty to struggle, has long been associated with struggles for promoting a religion, although some observers refer to such struggle as "the lesser jihad" by comparison with inner spiritual striving. [Islamic jurisprudence on war](/source/Islamic_military_jurisprudence) differentiates between illegitimate and legitimate warfare and prescribes proper and improper conduct by combatants. Numerous conquest wars as well as armed anti-colonial military campaigns were waged as jihads. == Islamic concepts concerning war == {{Main|Islamic military jurisprudence}} Islamic concepts concerning war refer to what have been accepted in [Sharia](/source/Sharia) (Islamic law) and [Fiqh](/source/Fiqh) (Islamic jurisprudence) by ''[Ulama](/source/Ulama)'' (Islamic scholars) as the correct [Islam](/source/Islam)ic manner which is expected to be obeyed by [Muslim](/source/Muslim)s in times of war. Some scholars and Muslim religious figures claim that armed struggle based on Islamic principles is referred to as the [Lesser jihad](/source/Lesser_jihad). Fighting is justified for legitimate [self-defense](/source/self-defense), to aid other Muslims, and after a violation in the terms of a treaty; but should be stopped if these circumstances cease to exist.Patricia Crone, "War". ''[Encyclopedia of the Qur'an](/source/Encyclopedia_of_the_Qur'an)''. p. 456. [Brill Publishers](/source/Brill_Publishers)[Micheline R. Ishay](/source/Micheline_R._Ishay), ''The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era'', [University of California Press](/source/University_of_California_Press), p. 45Sohail H. Hashmi, David Miller, ''Boundaries and Justice: diverse ethical perspectives'', [Princeton University Press](/source/Princeton_University_Press), p. 197Douglas M. Johnston, ''Faith-Based Diplomacy: Trumping Realpolitik'', [Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press), p. 48 War should be conducted in a disciplined way, to avoid injuring non-combatants, with the minimum necessary force, without anger and with humane treatment towards [prisoners of war](/source/prisoners_of_war).{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/islamethics/war.shtml |title = BBC – Religions – Islam: War}} ==History== ===Early instances=== {{Main|Early Muslim conquests|Military career of Muhammad|Diplomatic career of Muhammad|List of battles of Muhammad}}{{Campaignbox Campaigns of Muhammad}} The earliest forms of warfare by Muslims occurred after the migration ([hijra](/source/Hijra_(Islam))) of Muhammad and his small group of followers to [Medina](/source/Medina) from [Mecca](/source/Mecca) and the conversion of several inhabitants of the city to Islam. At this time, Muslims had been persecuted and oppressed by the Meccans.Adel Th. Khoury: ''Was sagt der Koran zum Heiligen Krieg?'', p.91 There were still Muslims who could not flee from Mecca and were still oppressed because of their faith. The Meccans also refused to let the Muslims enter Mecca and by that denied them access to the [Ka'aba](/source/Ka'aba). Major battles in the history of Islam arose between the Meccans and the Muslims; one of the most important to the latter was the [Battle of Badr](/source/Battle_of_Badr) in 624 AD.David Cook, Understanding Jihad; University of California Press: CA, 2005{{Page needed|date=December 2015}} Other early battles included battles in [Uhud](/source/Uhud) (625), [Khandaq](/source/Khandaq) (627), [Mecca](/source/Conquest_of_Mecca) (630), [Khaybar (628)](/source/Battle_of_Khaybar) and [Hunayn](/source/Battle_of_Hunayn) (630). These battles, especially [Uhud](/source/Uhud) was unsuccessful in comparison to the [Battle of Badr](/source/Battle_of_Badr).{{Page needed|date=December 2015}} In relating this battle, the [Qu'ran](/source/Quran) states that Allah sent an "unseen army of [angels](/source/angels)" that helped the Muslims defeat the Meccans.John L. Esposito, Islam, the Straight Path; Oxford University Press: New York, 2005{{Page needed|date=December 2015}} === Warfare by Islamic forces before 1918 === ====Islam in the Iberian Peninsula==== {{Main|Umayyad conquest of Hispania|Timeline of the Muslim presence in the Iberian Peninsula}} The [Umayyad](/source/Umayyad) conquest of [Hispania](/source/Hispania) was the initial expansion of the [Umayyad Caliphate](/source/Umayyad_Caliphate) over [Hispania](/source/Hispania) (in the [Iberian Peninsula](/source/Iberian_Peninsula)) from 711 to 718. The conquest resulted in the destruction of the [Visigothic Kingdom](/source/Visigothic_Kingdom) and the establishment of the Umayyad [Wilayah](/source/Wilayah) of [Al-Andalus](/source/Al-Andalus). The conquest marks the westernmost expansion of both the [Umayyad Caliphate](/source/Umayyad_Caliphate) and [Muslim](/source/Muslim) rule into Europe. The conquest was followed by a period of several hundred years during which most of the Iberian peninsula was known as [Al-Andalus](/source/Al-Andalus), dominated by Muslim rulers. Only a handful of new small Christian realms managed to reassert their authority across the faraway mountainous north of the peninsula. The [medieval Iberian Peninsula](/source/Iberian_Peninsula) was the scene of almost constant warfare between the Muslim al-Andalus (and later [Taifa](/source/Taifa)s) and Christian kingdoms. The [Almohad Dynasty](/source/Almohad_Dynasty) was a [Berber](/source/Berber_people), Muslim dynasty that was founded in the 12th century, and conquered all Northern Africa as far as [Libya](/source/Libya), together with [Al-Andalus](/source/Al-Andalus) ([Moorish](/source/Moors) Iberian Peninsula). The Almohads, who declared an everlasting Jihad against the Christians, far surpassed the [Almoravides](/source/Almoravides) in fundamentalist outlook, and they treated the ''[dhimmi](/source/dhimmi)s'' harshly.{{cite web|url=http://www.myjewishlearning.com/history_community/Medieval/IntergroupTO/JewishMuslim/Almohads.htm|title=The Almohads|work=myjewishlearning.com|access-date=2011-01-04|archive-date=2009-02-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090213223723/http://www.myjewishlearning.com/history_community/Medieval/IntergroupTO/JewishMuslim/Almohads.htm|url-status=dead}} Faced with the choice of either death or conversion, many Jews and Christians emigrated.Frank and Leaman, 2003, p. 137-138.{{Cite web |url=http://www.theforgottenrefugees.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=66&Itemid=39The |title=Forgotten Refugees |access-date=2011-01-04 |archive-date=2011-09-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929200526/http://www.theforgottenrefugees.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=66&Itemid=39The |url-status=dead }} The Almohads soon embarked in a campaign to destroy the Catholic kingdoms in the Iberian Peninsula and beyond. Outnumbered, the defending army led by King [Alfonso VIII of Castile](/source/Alfonso_VIII_of_Castile), defeated [Muhammad al-Nasir](/source/Muhammad_al-Nasir) near [Las Navas de Tolosa](/source/Las_Navas_de_Tolosa) in [1212](/source/1212). Las Navas de Tolosa is sought as the turning point of the [Reconquista](/source/Reconquista) and the end of the Muslim dominance in the Iberian Peninsula. In 1492, the [Granada War](/source/Granada_War) marked the end of the [Reconquista](/source/Reconquista), resulting in the defeat of the [Emirate of Granada](/source/Emirate_of_Granada), ending all of Islamic rule in the Iberian peninsula. ==== Crusades ==== European [crusaders](/source/crusaders) re-conquered much of the territory seized by the Islamic state, dividing it into four kingdoms, the most important being the [Kingdom of Jerusalem](/source/Kingdom_of_Jerusalem). The Crusades originally had the goal of recapturing Jerusalem and the [Holy Land](/source/Holy_Land) (former [Christian](/source/Christians) territory) from Muslim rule and were originally launched in response to a call from the [Eastern Orthodox](/source/Eastern_Orthodox) [Byzantine Empire](/source/Byzantine_Empire) for help against the expansion of the Muslim [Seljuk Turks](/source/Seljuk_Turks) into [Anatolia](/source/Anatolia). There was little drive to retake the lands from the crusaders, save the few attacks made by the [Egypt](/source/Egypt)ian [Fatimids](/source/Fatimids). This changed, however, with the first recorded use of jihad during the [Battle of Sarmada](/source/Battle_of_Ager_Sanguinis) in 1119, where a united Muslim army under the Turkish warlord [Ilghazi](/source/Ilghazi) were victorious over Outremer's force, destabilising the [Principality of Antioch](/source/Principality_of_Antioch) by killing their leader, [Roger](/source/Roger_of_Salerno). Though, the first instance where jihad was effectively used against the Crusaders to regain land was with the coming of [Zangi](/source/Imad_ad-Din_Zengi), ruler of what is today northern [Iraq](/source/Iraq). He took [Edessa](/source/County_of_Edessa), which triggered the [Second Crusade](/source/Second_Crusade), which was little more than a 47-year stalemate. The stalemate was ended with the victory of [Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi](/source/Saladin) (known in the west as Saladin) over the forces of Jerusalem at the [Horns of Hattin](/source/Horns_of_Hattin) in 1187. It was during the course of the stalemate that a great deal of literature regarding Jihad was written.{{Page needed|date=December 2015}} While amassing his armies in [Syria](/source/Syria), Saladin had to create a doctrine which would unite his forces and make them fight until the bitter end, which would be the only way they could re-conquer the lands taken in the [First Crusade](/source/First_Crusade). It stated that any one who would abandon the Jihad would be committing a [sin](/source/sin) that could not be washed away by any means. It also put his [amirs](/source/amirs) at the center of power, just under his rule.Richard P. Bonney, Jihad: From Qu'ran to Bin Laden; Palgrave Macmillan: Hampshire, 2004 ====South Asia==== Sir [Jadunath Sarkar](/source/Jadunath_Sarkar) contends that several Muslim invaders were waging a systematic Jihad against Hindus in India to the effect that "Every device short of [massacre](/source/massacre) in cold blood was resorted to in order to convert heathen subjects."{{cite book |last1=M.D |first1=Andrew G. Bostom |title=The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims |date=2010 |publisher=Prometheus Books |isbn=9781615920174 |page=34 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ju8xJ5JBXgsC&pg=PA34 |language=en}}{{cite book |last1=Sarkar |first1=Sir Jadunath |title=History of Aurangzib: based on original sources |date=1920 |publisher=Longmans, Green |page=290 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ulNHAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA290 |language=en}}{{cite book |last1=Sarkar |first1=Sir Jadunath |title=History of Aurangzib: Northern India, 1658–1681 |date=1920 |publisher=M.C. Sarkar & sons |page=290 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g7Q5AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA290 |language=en}} In particular the records kept by al-Utbi, [Mahmud al-Ghazni](/source/Mahmud_Ghazni)'s secretary, in the [Tarikh-i-Yamini](/source/Tarikh_Yamini) document several episodes of bloody military campaigns. In the late tenth century, a story spread that before Muhammad destroyed the idols at the [Kaaba](/source/Kaaba), that of [Manāt](/source/Man%C4%81t) was secretly sent to a Hindu temple in India; and the place was renamed as ''So-Manāt'' or ''Somnath''. Acting on this, the [Shiva](/source/Shiva) [idol](/source/Jyotirling) at the [Somnath temple](/source/Somnath) was destroyed in a raid by Mahmud Ghazni in CE 1024; which is considered the first act of Jihad in India. {{cite book |last = Akbar |first = Mobashar |author-link = M. J. Akbar |title = The Shade of Swords: Jihad and the conflict between Islam and Christianity |publisher = Routledge |year = 2002 |page = [https://archive.org/details/shadeofswordsjih0000akba/page/100 100] |url = https://archive.org/details/shadeofswordsjih0000akba |url-access = registration |isbn = 978-0-415-28470-7 |access-date = 2016-03-23 }} In 1527, [Babur](/source/Babur) ordered a Jihad against [Rajput](/source/Rajput)s and [Meenas](/source/Meenas) at the [battle of Khanwa](/source/battle_of_Khanwa). Publicly addressing his men, he declared the forthcoming battle a Jihad. His soldiers were facing a non-Muslim army for the first time ever. This, he said, was their chance to become either a ''Ghazi'' (soldier of Islam) or a ''Shaheed'' (Martyr of Islam). In 1567, [Babur](/source/Babur)'s grandson [Akbar](/source/Akbar) declared [Jihad](/source/Jihad) against the [Sisodiya](/source/Kingdom_of_Mewar) ruler [Uday Singh](/source/Udai_Singh_II) and [beiseged his capital in October 1567](/source/Siege_of_Chittorgarh_(1567-1568)). The garrison of Chittor was slaughtered to the last men and the city was taken after a gallant resistance by the defenders. After the fort was captured, the inhabitants of Chittor numbered around 30,000 were massacred and the rest [were enslaved](/source/slavery_in_India). Akbar, proclaimed the conquest of Chittor as victory of [Islam](/source/Islam) over the [idolaters](/source/idolatory) and issued a victory letter expressing about his victory in sentiments of [Islamic inconoclasm](/source/iconoclasm).{{Cite book|author=Iqtidar Alam Khan|date=2011|title=The Nobility under Akbar and the Development of his Religious Policy, 1560–80 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-royal-asiatic-society/article/abs/nobility-under-akbar-and-the-development-of-his-religious-policy-156080/FFD46A5620AA6BD86B9E4D4BF69902D3 |page=32|quote=The public manifestation of Akbar's attitude during the siege of Chittor (1568) is in this connection quite instructive. The fall of Chittor was proclaimed by him as the victory of Islam over infidels. A fathnama issued on 9th March, 1568, conveying the news of his victory at Chittor to the officers of the Punjab is so full of intolerant professions and sentiments and couched in such aggressive language that it could compete favourably with similar documents issued by the most orthodox of the Muslim rulers of India|publisher=[Cambridge University Press](/source/Cambridge_University_Press)}}{{Cite book|author=Satish Chandra|author-link=Satish Chandra (historian)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qDxuAAAAMAAJ |title=Mughal Religious Policies, the Rajputs & the Deccan |date=1993 |publisher=Vikas Publishing House |isbn=978-0-7069-6385-4|pages=18, 21|quote= Akbar's siege of Chittor, the gallant Rajput resistance led by Jaimal and Patta, the subsequent Jauhar on the part of the Rajputs and Akbar's conquest of the fort has been the saga of many tales and ballads in Rajasthan (ii) Exaspered by the stiffness of the resistance, Akbar ordered a general massacre in the course of which about 30,000 persons were killed including the defenders and a large number of peasants who had taken shelter in the fort. A large number of people were taken prisoners.(iii):-Although Raja Bhagwant Singh was at Akbar's side throughout the siege, the proctrated Rajput resistance led Akbar to hail the battle against the Rana a Jihad, and all those who fell in the battle as ghazis. The aspect was further emphasised in the fatahnama, which Akbar issued after the victory, almost on the model of the fathanama issued by Babur after his victory over Sanga|language=en}} Akbar's grandson emperor [Aurangzeb](/source/Aurangzeb) waged a Jihad against those identified as heterodox within India's Islamic community, such as [Shi'a](/source/Shi'a) Muslims.{{cite web |url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-98572377.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080204143631/http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-98572377.html |archive-date=4 February 2008 |title=The Shade of Swords: Jihad and the Conflict between Islam and Christianity |author=M. J. Akbar}}K. S. Lal: ''[Growth of Muslim Population in Medieval India](/source/Growth_of_Muslim_Population_in_Medieval_India)'', 1973{{Page needed|date=December 2015}} ====Barbary Pirates==== {{Main|Barbary Pirates|Barbary slave trade}} After the Spanish reconquered [Granada](/source/Granada) from the Moors in 1492, many Moors exiled from the [Spanish Inquisition](/source/Spanish_Inquisition) fled to North Africa. After attacks against Spanish shipping took place from North Africa, the Spanish retaliated by seizing [Oran](/source/Oran), [Algiers](/source/Algiers), and [Tunis](/source/Tunis). By 1518, the pirates were serving in the navies of North African Sultans, conducting activities that included attacks on enemy (especially Christian) trade and raiding European coastlines for potential slaves. However, by 1587, their activity became much more decentralized, and more like traditional piracy.{{cite EB1911 |wstitle=Barbary Pirates |volume=3 |pages=383–384 |first=David |last=Hannay}} Much of the Barbary activity was funded through the enslavement of European Christians. In the beginning of the 17th Century, there were more than 20,000 captives to be sold into [slavery in Algiers](/source/slavery_in_Algeria) alone. Although people from all over Christendom suffered Barbary attacks, the people who were the most likely victims were from [Sicily](/source/Sicily). However, any Christian nation that refused to pay tribute to Islam and either the [Sultanate of Morocco](/source/Sultanate_of_Morocco), [Eyalet of Tripolitania](/source/Eyalet_of_Tripolitania), or the [Regency of Algiers](/source/Regency_of_Algiers) could have been subject to attack. In 1800, the [Eyalet of Tripolitania](/source/Eyalet_of_Tripolitania) demanded an increase of tribute in order to "prevent" future attacks against the fledgling United States. However, the U.S. refused to pay the tribute, and this led to the [First Barbary War](/source/First_Barbary_War). When the U.S. defeated the Tripolitanians in the [Battle of Derne](/source/Battle_of_Derne) in 1805, the two nations signed a treaty that had favorable terms for the United States. However, a resurgence in Barbary attacks in 1815 led to the [U.S. Navy](/source/U.S._Navy) being used again in the [Second Barbary War](/source/Second_Barbary_War), which also resulted in a US victory and the ceasing of all Barbary attacks on American shipping without tribute. {{Cite web |url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/605837/Tripolitan-War |title=First Barbary War | Summary, History, Significance, & Facts | Britannica |access-date=2015-05-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150508171832/http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/605837/Tripolitan-War |archive-date=2015-05-08 |url-status=live }} ====Ottoman Empire==== Upon succeeding his father, [Suleiman the Magnificent](/source/Suleiman_the_Magnificent) began a series of [military conquests in Europe](/source/Ottoman_wars_in_Europe).{{cite web|url=http://www-personal.umich.edu/~sarhaus/larimore02/suleiman.html|title=Year Timeline|work=umich.edu|access-date=2011-01-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101121014030/http://www-personal.umich.edu/~sarhaus/larimore02/suleiman.html|archive-date=2010-11-21|url-status=live}} On August 29, 1526, he defeated [Louis II of Hungary](/source/Louis_II_of_Hungary) (1516–26) at the [battle of Mohács](/source/battle_of_Moh%C3%A1cs). In its wake, Hungarian resistance collapsed and the [Ottoman Empire](/source/Ottoman_Empire) became the preeminent power in South-Eastern Europe.Kinross, 187. In July 1683 Sultan [Mehmet IV](/source/Mehmet_IV) proclaimed a Jihad and the Turkish grand vizier, [Kara Mustafa Pasha](/source/Kara_Mustafa_Pasha), [laid siege to Vienna](/source/Battle_of_Vienna) with an army of 138,000 men.{{cite web|url=http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/~fisher/hst373/readings/inalcik6.html|title=Inalcik. Servile Labor|work=msu.edu|access-date=2011-01-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090911101051/http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/~fisher/hst373/readings/inalcik6.html|archive-date=2009-09-11|url-status=live}} On November 14, 1914, in [Constantinople](/source/Constantinople), capital of the Ottoman Empire, the religious leader [Sheikh-ul-Islam](/source/Sheikh-ul-Islam) declares Jihad on behalf of the Ottoman government, urging Muslims all over the world—including in the [Allied countries](/source/Allies_of_World_War_I)—to take up arms against Britain, [Russia](/source/Russian_Empire), [France](/source/French_Third_Republic), [Serbia](/source/Kingdom_of_Serbia) and [Montenegro](/source/Kingdom_of_Montenegro) in World War I.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/middle_east_01.shtml|title=BBC – History – World Wars: The Middle East during World War One |publisher=BBC History |access-date=2011-01-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110103072141/http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/middle_east_01.shtml|archive-date=2011-01-03|url-status=live}} On the other hand, [Sheikh](/source/Sheikh) [Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca](/source/Hussein_bin_Ali%2C_Sharif_of_Mecca), refused to accommodate Ottoman requests that he endorse this jihad, a requirement that was necessary were a jihad to become popular, due to British pressure and on the grounds that:
the Holy War was doctrinally incompatible with an aggressive war, and absurd with a Christian ally: Germany[T. E. Lawrence](/source/T._E._Lawrence), ''The Seven Pillars of Wisdom'', Jonathan Cape, London (1954 [1926]), p. 49.
====Central Asia and Afghanistan==== [Ahmad Shah](/source/Ahmad_Shah_Durrani), founder of the [Durrani Empire](/source/Durrani_Empire), declared a jihad against the [Maratha](/source/Maratha)s, and warriors from various [Pashtun](/source/Pashtun_people) tribes, as well as other tribes answered his call. The [Third battle of Panipat](/source/Third_battle_of_Panipat) (January 1761), fought between largely [Muslim](/source/Islam) and largely [Hindu](/source/Hinduism) armies who numbered as many as 100,000 troops each, was waged along a twelve-kilometre front, and resulted in a victory for Ahmad Shah.For a detailed account of the battle fought see Chapter VI of ''The Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan'' by [H. G. Keene](/source/Henry_George_Keene_(1826%E2%80%931915)). Available online at [http://emotional-literacy-education.com/classic-books-online-a/tfmeh10.htm Emotional-literacy-education.com] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110710191356/http://emotional-literacy-education.com/classic-books-online-a/tfmeh10.htm |date=2011-07-10 }} In response to the [Hazara](/source/Hazara_people) uprising of 1892, the Afghan Emir [Abdur Rahman Khan](/source/Abdur_Rahman_Khan) declared a "Jihad" against the [Shiites](/source/Shiites). The large army defeated the rebellion at its center, in [Oruzgan](/source/Oruzgan), by 1892 and the local population was severely massacred. According to S. A. Mousavi, "thousands of Hazara men, women, and children were [sold as slaves](/source/slavery_in_Afghanistan) in the markets of Kabul and Qandahar, while numerous towers of human heads were made from the defeated rebels as a warning to others who might challenge the rule of the Amir". Until the 20th century, some Hazaras were still kept as slaves by the [Pashtuns](/source/Pashtun_people); although [Amanullah Khan](/source/Amanullah_Khan) banned [slavery in Afghanistan](/source/slavery_in_Afghanistan) during his reign,{{cite web|url=http://www.afghangovernment.com/Constitution1923.htm|title=Afghan Constitution 1923|publisher=afghangovernment.com|access-date=2011-01-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707092303/http://www.afghangovernment.com/Constitution1923.htm|archive-date=2011-07-07|url-status=dead}} the tradition carried on unofficially for many more years.{{cite web|url=http://www.afghanmagazine.com/2004_06/articles/hsadat.shtml|title=Welcome afghanmagazine.com - Justhost.com|author=just host|work=afghanmagazine.com|access-date=2011-01-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613114859/http://www.afghanmagazine.com/2004_06/articles/hsadat.shtml|archive-date=2011-06-13|url-status=dead}} ==== Wahabbists ==== {{Main|Wahhabism|}} The [Saudi](/source/First_Saudi_State) [Salafi](/source/Salafi) sheiks were convinced that it was their religious mission to wage Jihad against all other forms of Islam. In 1801 or 1802, the Saudi Wahhabists under [Abdul Aziz ibn Muhammad ibn Saud](/source/Abdul_Aziz_ibn_Muhammad_ibn_Saud) attacked and captured the holy [Shia](/source/Shia) cities of [Karbala](/source/Karbala) and [Najaf](/source/Najaf) in [Iraq](/source/Iraq), massacred the Shiites and destroyed the tombs of the Shiite [Imam Husayn](/source/Husayn_ibn_Ali) and [Ali bin Abu Talib](/source/Ali_bin_Abu_Talib). In 1802 they overtook [Taif](/source/Taif). In 1803 and 1804 the Wahhabis overtook Mecca and Medina. {{cite web|url=http://countrystudies.us/saudi-arabia/7.htm|title=The Saud Family and Wahhabi Islam|work=countrystudies.us|access-date=2011-01-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721222356/http://countrystudies.us/saudi-arabia/7.htm|archive-date=2011-07-21|url-status=live}} Nibras Kazimi,[http://www.nysun.com/article/65662?page_no=3 A Paladin Gears Up for War] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080304153101/http://www.nysun.com/article/65662?page_no=3 |date=2008-03-04 }}, [The New York Sun](/source/The_New_York_Sun), November 1, 2007 John R Bradley, [http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GC17Ak01.html Saudi's Shi'ites walk tightrope] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101231034726/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GC17Ak01.html |date=2010-12-31 }}, [Asia Times](/source/Asia_Times), March 17, 2005 Amir Taheri, [https://archive.today/20110805092425/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1072-1236007,00.html Death is big business in Najaf, but Iraq's future depends on who controls it], [The Times](/source/The_Times), August 28, 2004 ===Fulani jihads (West Africa)=== The Fula or [Fulani jihads](/source/Fula_jihads), were a series of independent but loosely connected events across [West Africa](/source/West_Africa) between the late 17th century and [European colonization](/source/European_colonization), in which Muslim [Fulas](/source/Fula_people) took control of various parts of the region. {{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.britannica.com/eb/topic-620352/Usman-dan-Fodio|title=Usman dan Fodio|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=2011-01-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071123082712/http://www.britannica.com/eb/topic-620352/Usman-dan-Fodio|archive-date=2007-11-23|url-status=live}} Between 1750 and 1900, one-third to two-thirds of the entire population of the Fulani jihad states consisted of slaves.{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.britannica.com/blackhistory/article-24157 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080301174556/http://www.britannica.com/blackhistory/article-24157 |archive-date=1 March 2008 |title=Slavery |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica's Guide to Black History}} ===Anti-colonial warfare in Muslim areas=== ====Caucasus==== In 1784, Imam [Sheikh Mansur](/source/Sheikh_Mansur), a [Chechen](/source/Chechen_people) warrior and [Muslim mystic](/source/Islamic_mysticism), led a coalition of Muslim [Caucasian tribes](/source/Peoples_of_the_Caucasus) from throughout the [Caucasus](/source/Caucasus) in a ghazavat, or holy war, against the Russian invaders.{{cite web |url=http://www.islamicsupremecouncil.org/bin/site/wrappers/spirituality-sufism_caucasus.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080225110849/http://islamicsupremecouncil.org/bin/site/wrappers/spirituality-sufism_caucasus.html |archive-date=25 February 2008 |title=Sufism in the Caucasus |publisher=[Islamic Supreme Council of America](/source/Islamic_Supreme_Council_of_America)}} Sheikh Mansur was captured in 1791 and died in the [Schlüsselburg Fortress](/source/Schl%C3%BCsselburg_Fortress). [Avarian](/source/Caucasian_Avars) Islamic scholar [Ghazi Muhammad](/source/Ghazi_Muhammad) preached that Jihad would not occur until the Caucasians followed [Sharia](/source/Sharia) completely rather than following a mixture of Islamic laws and ''adat'' (customary traditions). By 1829, Mullah began proselytizing and claiming that obeying Sharia, giving [zakat](/source/zakat), prayer, and [hajj](/source/hajj) would not be accepted by Allah if the Russians were still present in the area. He even went on to claim that marriages would become void and children bastards if any Russians were still in the Caucasus. In 1829 he was proclaimed [imam](/source/imam) in [Ghimry](/source/Ghimry), where he formally made the call for a holy war. In 1834, Ghazi Muhammad died at the battle of Ghimri, and [Imam Shamil](/source/Imam_Shamil) took his place as the premier leader of the Caucasian resistance. Imam Shamil succeeded in accomplishing what Sheik Mansur had started: to unite North Caucasian highlanders in their struggle against the [Russian Empire](/source/Russian_Empire). He was a leader of anti-Russian resistance in the [Caucasian War](/source/Caucasian_War) and was the third [Imam](/source/Imam) of [Dagestan](/source/Dagestan) and [Chechnya](/source/Chechnya) (1834–1859). {{cite web|url=https://www.angelfire.com/rnb/bashiri/CentAsia/Shamil.html|title=Imam Shamil of Dagestan|work=[Angelfire](/source/Angelfire)|access-date=2011-01-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110307022310/http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/bashiri/CentAsia/Shamil.html|archive-date=2011-03-07|url-status=live}} {{cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5095926.stm|title=Tough lessons in defiant Dagestan|work=bbc.co.uk}} ====Mahdists in Sudan==== {{Main|Mahdist War}} During the 1870s, European initiatives against the [slave trade](/source/slavery_in_Egypt) caused an economic crisis in northern [Sudan](/source/Sudan), precipitating the rise of [Mahdist](/source/Muhammad_Ahmad) forces.{{cite web |url=http://www.american.edu/ted/ice/sudan.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080305154026/http://www.american.edu/ted/ice/sudan.htm |archive-date=5 March 2008 |title=Civil War in the Sudan: Resources or Religion? |author=D. Michelle Domke}}{{cite journal |author=Alice Moore-Harell |year=1998 |title=Slave trade in the Sudan in the nineteenth century and its suppression in the years 1877–80 |journal=[Middle Eastern Studies](/source/Middle_Eastern_Studies) |volume=34 |issue=2 |pages=113–128 |doi=10.1080/00263209808701225 |jstor=4283940}} [Muhammad Ahmed Al Mahdi](/source/Muhammad_Ahmad) was a religious leader, who proclaimed himself the [Mahdi](/source/Mahdi)—the prophesied redeemer of Islam who will appear at [end times](/source/Eschatology)—in 1881, and declared a Jihad against [Ottoman](/source/Ottoman_Empire) rulers. He declared all "[Turks](/source/Turkish_people)" infidels and called for their [execution](/source/execution).Holt, P.M.,''The Mahdist State in Sudan,'' Clarendon Press, Oxford 1958, p. 51 The Mahdi raised an army and led a successful religious war to topple the [Ottoman](/source/Ottoman_Empire)-[Egypt](/source/Egypt)ian occupation of Sudan. Victory created an Islamic state, one that quickly reinstituted [slavery in Sudan](/source/slavery_in_Sudan). In the West he is most famous for defeating and later killing [British](/source/Great_Britain) general [Charles George Gordon](/source/Charles_George_Gordon), in the [fall of Khartoum](/source/Siege_of_Khartoum). {{cite web|url=http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/sdtoc.html|title=Sudan : Country Studies|publisher=Federal Research Division, Library of Congress|website=loc.gov|access-date=2011-01-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090302030742/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/sdtoc.html|archive-date=2009-03-02|url-status=live}} ==== Afghanistan ==== The [First Anglo-Afghan War](/source/First_Anglo-Afghan_War) (1838–42) was one of Britain's most ill-advised and disastrous wars. [William Brydon](/source/William_Brydon) was the sole survivor of the invading British army of 16,500 soldiers and civilians.{{cite web|url=http://www.britishbattles.com/first-afghan-war/kabul-gandamak.htm|title=First Afghan War – Battle of Kabul and Retreat to Gandamak|work=britishbattles.com|access-date=2011-01-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101224231036/http://www.britishbattles.com/first-afghan-war/kabul-gandamak.htm|archive-date=2010-12-24|url-status=dead}} The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was also a disaster and considered to be their "Vietnam". {{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/15/world/10-years-in-afghanistan-the-soviet-vietnam.html|title=10 Years in Afghanistan: The Soviet Vietnam|date=1988-04-15|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=2016-09-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160914132145/http://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/15/world/10-years-in-afghanistan-the-soviet-vietnam.html|archive-date=2016-09-14|url-status=live}} The invasion and atrocities compelled the west into providing aid to the mujaheddin. The Russian invasion was also the historical event that provoked [Osama bin Laden](/source/Osama_bin_Laden) into migrating to Afghanistan in 1979, the same year he graduated from University. {{Cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/05/02/bin.laden.timeline/|title=Timeline: Osama bin Laden, over the years|publisher=CNN|access-date=2016-09-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160819170221/http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/05/02/bin.laden.timeline/|archive-date=2016-08-19|url-status=live}} As in the earlier [wars against the British](/source/Invasions_of_Afghanistan) and [Soviets](/source/Soviet%E2%80%93Afghan_War), Afghan Resistance to the [American invaders](/source/Invasions_of_Afghanistan) took the traditional form of a Muslim holy war against the infidels.{{cite news|last=Jamieson|first=Alan G.|url=http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/opinion/story.html?id=1db342f6-7872-4c39-8410-81ad3a916908&k=25970|title=Reason to hope Canadians don't repeat history in Afghanistan|newspaper=[Edmonton Journal](/source/Edmonton_Journal)|date=31 July 2006|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090411165901/http://www2.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/opinion/story.html?id=1db342f6-7872-4c39-8410-81ad3a916908&k=25970 |archive-date=11 April 2009}} During September 2002, the remnants of the [Taliban](/source/Taliban) forces began a recruitment drive in [Pashtun](/source/Pashtun_people) areas in both [Afghanistan](/source/Afghanistan) and [Pakistan](/source/Pakistan) to launch a renewed "jihad" or holy war against the pro-Western Afghan government and the US-led coalition. [Pamphlet](/source/Pamphlet)s distributed in secret during the night also began to appear in many villages in the former Taliban heartland in southeastern Afghanistan that called for jihad. {{cite news|title=Leaflet War Rages in Afghan Countryside|agency=Associated Press|date=2003-02-14|url=http://www.afghanistan.org/news_detail.asp?14840|access-date=2007-02-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150418230125/http://www.afghanistan.org/news_detail.asp?14840|archive-date=2015-04-18|url-status=live}} Small mobile training camps were established along the border with Pakistan by al-Qaeda and Taliban fugitives to train new recruits in [guerrilla warfare](/source/guerrilla_warfare) and [terrorist tactics](/source/terrorism), according to Afghan sources and a United Nations report. {{cite web|title=Taliban regroups – on the road|author=Tohid, Owias|publisher=[Christian Science Monitor](/source/Christian_Science_Monitor)|date=2003-06-27|url=https://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0627/p06s01-wosc.html?related|access-date=2007-02-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930044510/http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0627/p06s01-wosc.html?related|archive-date=2007-09-30|url-status=live}} Most of the new recruits were drawn from the [madrassa](/source/madrassa)s or religious schools of the tribal areas of Pakistan, from which the Taliban had originally arisen. The [insurgency](/source/insurgency) continued in the form of the [Taliban guerrilla war](/source/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%93present)), up until its conclusion in 2021 following the withdrawal of U.S forces.{{cite web |date=2025-03-24 |title=Remarks by President Biden on the Drawdown of U.S. Forces in Afghanistan |url=https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/07/08/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-drawdown-of-u-s-forces-in-afghanistan/ |access-date=2021-08-25 |website=The White House}}{{Citation needed|date=November 2015}} Although there is no evidence that the [CIA](/source/Central_Intelligence_Agency) directly supported the Taliban or [Al Qaeda](/source/Al_Qaeda), some basis for military support of the Taliban was provided when, in the early 1980s, the CIA and the ISI (Pakistan's Interservices Intelligence Agency) provided arms to [Afghan mujahideen](/source/Afghan_mujahideen)s resisting the [Soviet invasion of Afghanistan](/source/Soviet_invasion_of_Afghanistan),[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE3DC1438F93BA25750C0A9649C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2Turning Out Guerrillas and Terrorists to Wage a Holy War], ''New York Times'', March 18, 2002 and the ISI assisted the process of gathering radical Muslims from around the world to fight against the Soviets. [Osama bin Laden](/source/Osama_bin_Laden) was one of the key players in organizing training camps for the foreign Muslim volunteers.{{citation needed|date=November 2017}} The Soviets completely withdrew from Afghanistan by 1989, ending a war which had become an embarrassment for politicians in Moscow. {{Cite web|last=Keller|first=Bill|url=https://partners.nytimes.com/library/world/africa/021689afghan-laden.html|title=Last Soviet Soldiers Leave Afghanistan|work=[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)|access-date=2016-09-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160908183928/http://partners.nytimes.com/library/world/africa/021689afghan-laden.html|archive-date=2016-09-08|url-status=live}} ====Algeria==== In 1830, [Algeria](/source/Algeria) was [invaded by France](/source/French_rule_in_Algeria); French [colonial](/source/colonialism) domination over Algeria supplanted what had been domination in name by the [Ottoman Empire](/source/Ottoman_Empire). Within two years, [Abd al-Qādir](/source/Abd_al-Qadir_al-Jaza'iri) was made an ''amir'' and with the loyalty of a number of [tribe](/source/tribe)s began a jihad against the French. He was effective at using [guerrilla warfare](/source/guerrilla_warfare) and for a decade, up until 1842, scored many victories. He was noted for his [chivalry](/source/chivalry). On December 21, 1847, Abd al-Qādir was forced to surrender. [http://www.country-data.com/cgi-bin/query/r-333.html Abd al Qadir] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110807071118/http://www.country-data.com/cgi-bin/query/r-333.html |date=2011-08-07 }}, Library of Congress Abd al-Qādir is recognized and venerated as the first hero of Algerian independence. Not without cause, his green and white standard was adopted by the [Algerian Liberation Front](/source/Algerian_Liberation_Front) during the [War of Independence](/source/Algerian_War) and became the national flag of independent Algeria.{{Citation needed|date=November 2015}} The [Algerian Civil War](/source/Algerian_Civil_War) (1991–2002) was an armed conflict between the Algerian government and various [Islamist](/source/Islamist) rebel groups which began in 1991. By 1997, the organized jihad in Algeria had disintegrated into criminal thuggery and Algeria was wracked by [massacres](/source/List_of_Algerian_massacres_of_the_1990s) of intense brutality and unprecedented size.{{cite web |url=http://www.nmhschool.org/tthornton/algeria.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080218155900/http://www.nmhschool.org/tthornton/algeria.php |archive-date=18 February 2008 |title=Algeria |author=Ted Thornton}} [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2501/is_3_23/ai_78804226/pg_1 Centrifugal Tendencies In The Algerian Civil War] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081206145821/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2501/is_3_23/ai_78804226/pg_1 |date=2008-12-06 }}, Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) ===Southeast Asia=== In 1527, an invasion from the Demak Sultanate caused the destruction of the Hindu and Buddhist Majapahit empire.{{Cite book |last=M. C. Ricklefs |url=http://archive.org/details/m.-c.-ricklefs-a-history-of-modern-indonesia-since-c.-1200-red-globe-press-2008 |title=A History of Modern Indonesia since c. 1200 Fourth Edition (E-Book version) |date=2008 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |pages=55}} The [Cham](/source/Cham_people) Muslims under Katip Suma declared a Jihad against the Vietnamese invasion of Champa in 1832 under Emperor [Minh Mang](/source/Minh_Mang). {{cite book|last=Hubert|first=Jean-François|title=The Art of Champa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3oMqrqSp1W4C&pg=PA25|access-date=1 April 2016|year=2012|publisher=Parkstone International|isbn=978-1-78042-964-9|page=25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160508135937/https://books.google.com/books?id=3oMqrqSp1W4C&pg=PA25|archive-date=2016-05-08|url-status=live}} {{cite web|title=The Raja Praong Ritual: A Memory of the Sea in Cham- Malay Relations |url=http://chamunesco.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=110:the-raja-praong-ritual-a-memory-of-the-sea-in-cham-malay-relations&catid=45:van-hoa&Itemid=120 |work=Cham Unesco |access-date=25 June 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150206042152/http://chamunesco.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=110%3Athe-raja-praong-ritual-a-memory-of-the-sea-in-cham-malay-relations&catid=45%3Avan-hoa&Itemid=120 |archive-date= 6 February 2015 }} {{cite web|last1=Dharma|first1=Po|title=The Uprisings of Katip Sumat and Ja Thak Wa (1833–1835)|url=http://www.chamtoday.com/index.php/history-l-ch-s/78-the-uprisings-of-katip-sumat-and-ja-thak-wa-1833-1835|website=Cham Today|access-date=25 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626122653/http://www.chamtoday.com/index.php/history-l-ch-s/78-the-uprisings-of-katip-sumat-and-ja-thak-wa-1833-1835|archive-date=2015-06-26|url-status=live}} ===China=== Turkic Kokandi Uzbek Muslim forces under [Yaqub Beg](/source/Yakub_Beg_of_Yettishar) declared a Jihad against [Chinese Muslims](/source/Hui_people) under T'o Ming during the [Dungan revolt](/source/Dungan_revolt_(1862%E2%80%931877)). Yaqub Beg enlisted non Muslim Han Chinese militia under Hsu Hsuehkung in order to fight against the Chinese Muslims. T'o Ming's forces were defeated by Yaqub, who planned to conquer Dzungharia. Yaqub intended to seize all Dungan territory. {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pEfWaxPhdnIC&q=religious+war+against+the+tungans+also+sunnis|title=Late Ch'ing, 1800–1911|author-link1=John F. Fairbank|author-link2=Kwang-Ching Liu|author-link3=Denis Twitchett|author1=John King Fairbank|author2=Kwang-ching Liu|author3=Denis Crispin Twitchett|year=1980|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=0-521-22029-7|page=223|access-date=2010-06-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131009041559/http://books.google.com/books?id=pEfWaxPhdnIC&dq=t%27o+ming+yakub&q=jihad#v=onepage&q=religious%20war%20against%20the%20tungans%20also%20sunnis&f=false|archive-date=2013-10-09|url-status=live}} {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pEfWaxPhdnIC&q=hsu+han+militia|title=Late Ch'ing|author1=John King Fairbank|author2=Kwang-ching Liu|author3=Denis Crispin Twitchett|year=1980|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=0-521-22029-7|page=224|access-date=2010-06-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131009041559/http://books.google.com/books?id=pEfWaxPhdnIC&dq=t%27o+ming+yakub&q=jihad#v=onepage&q=hsu%20han%20militia&f=false|archive-date=2013-10-09|url-status=live}} The [Boxer Rebellion](/source/Boxer_Rebellion) was considered a Jihad by the Muslim [Kansu Braves](/source/Kansu_Braves) in the Chinese Imperial Army under [Dong Fuxiang](/source/Dong_Fuxiang), fighting against the [Eight-Nation Alliance](/source/Eight-Nation_Alliance).{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/booksonfiredestr0000pola|url-access=registration|quote=doing fuxiang russian.|title=Books on fire: the destruction of libraries throughout history|publisher=Lucien X. POLASTRON|author1=Lucien X. Polastron |author2=Jon Graham |year=2007|page=[https://archive.org/details/booksonfiredestr0000pola/page/102 102]|isbn=978-1-59477-167-5|access-date=2010-06-28}} {{cite book|author=Lucien X. Polastron|title=Libri al rogo|year=2006|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U8mEb36wMzsC&q=jihad+dunhuangyear%3D2006&pg=PA103|isbn=978-88-89609-13-2|pages=103–|publisher=Lucien X. POLASTRON |access-date=2015-10-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160515034731/https://books.google.com/books?id=U8mEb36wMzsC&pg=PA103&dq=jihad+dunhuang&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CEIQ6AEwB2oVChMI9cfmpbi8yAIVCzs-Ch32RAnr#v=onepage&q=jihad%20dunhuang&f=falseyear=2006|archive-date=2016-05-15|url-status=live}} Jihad was declared obligatory and a religious duty for all Chinese Muslims against Japan after 1937 during the [Second Sino-Japanese War](/source/Second_Sino-Japanese_War). {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MJzB6wrz6Q4C&q=jihad+japan+sacred+muslims+china|title=Intellectuals in the modern Islamic world: transmission, transformation, communication|author1=Stéphane A. Dudoignon|author2=Hisao Komatsu|author3=Yasushi Kosugi|year=2006|publisher=Taylor & Francis|pages=135, 336|isbn=978-0-415-36835-3|access-date=2010-06-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111213101207/http://books.google.com/books?id=MJzB6wrz6Q4C&dq=ma+fuxiang+defence&q=jihad+japan#v=snippet&q=jihad%20japan%20sacred%20muslims%20china&f=false|archive-date=2011-12-13|url-status=live}} ===Axis Europe=== {{Main|Relations between Nazi Germany and the Arab world||}} Among the Nazi leadership, the greatest interest in the idea of creating Muslim units under German command was shown by Heinrich Himmler, who viewed the Islamic world as a potential ally against the British Empire.{{cite book|last1 = Hoare|first1 = Marko Attila|title = The Bosnian Muslims in the Second World War: A History|date = 2013|publisher = C. Hust and Co|location = London|isbn = 978-1-84904-241-3|page = 53}} Himmler had a romantic vision of Islam as a faith ‘fostering fearless soldiers’, and this probably played a significant role{{harvnb|Tomasevich|2001|p = 496}}{{harvnb|Lepre|1997|pp = 12, 310}} in his decision to raise three Muslim divisions under German leadership in the [Balkans](/source/Balkans) from [Bosnian Muslims](/source/Bosniaks) and [Albanians](/source/Albanian_people):{{harvnb|Stein|1984|pp = 184–85}}. the Waffen SS 13th [Handschar](/source/13th_Waffen_Mountain_Division_of_the_SS_Handschar_(1st_Croatian)) ("Knife"), the 23rd [Kama](/source/23rd_Waffen_Mountain_Division_of_the_SS_Kama_(2nd_Croatian)) ("Dagger") and the 21st [Skenderbeg](/source/21st_Waffen_Mountain_Division_of_the_SS_Skanderbeg_(1st_Albanian)), although only Handschar reached full [division](/source/Division_(military)) strength. The Skenderbeg was an Albanian unit of around 4,000 men, and the Kama was composed of Muslims from Bosnia, containing 3,793 men at its peak. The Handschar was the largest unit, around 20,000 Bosnian Muslim volunteers. Recruitment was aided by the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem [Haj Amin al-Husseini](/source/Haj_Amin_al-Husseini), who fled from British-controlled Palestine in 1941 to Baghdad and then to Berlin. He participated in the German war effort "by broadcasting anti-British, jihadist propaganda to the Middle East and by recruiting [Bosnian Muslims](/source/Bosnian_Muslims)" for the German Armed Forces or [Wehrmacht](/source/Wehrmacht).{{cite book | title=1948: a history of the first Arab-Israeli war | last=Morris | first=Benny | year=2008 | page=[https://archive.org/details/1948historyoffir00morr/page/21 21] | publisher=Yale University Press | isbn=978-0-300-12696-9 | url=https://archive.org/details/1948historyoffir00morr/page/21 }} The ''Encyclopedia of the Holocaust'' states "These Muslim volunteer units, called Handschar, were put in Waffen SS units, fought Yugoslav partisans in Bosnia and carried out police and security duties in Hungary. They participated in the massacre of civilians in Bosnia and volunteered to join in the hunt for Jews in Croatia." Part of the division also escorted Hungarian Jews from the forced labor in mine in [Bor](/source/Bor%2C_Serbia) on their way back to Hungary. "The division was also employed against Serbs, who as Orthodox Christians were seen by the Bosnian Muslims as enemies." Husseini asked that Muslim divisional operations to be restricted to the defense of the Moslem heartland of [Bosnia and Herzegovina](/source/Bosnia_and_Herzegovina).{{harvnb|Lepre|1997|p = 135}}. The Handschar earned a repute for brutality in ridding north-eastern Bosnia of Serbs and partisans: many local Muslims, observing the violence, were driven to go over to the communist partisans.{{harvnb|Tomasevich|2001|p = 499}}{{harvnb|Hoare|2014|pp = 194–95}}. Once redeployed outside Bosnia, and as the fortunes of war turned, mass defections and desertions took place, and [Volksdeutsche](/source/Volksdeutsche) were drafted to replace the losses.{{harvnb|Lepre|1997|pp = 247ff.}}. There were at least 70,000 Bosnian Muslims captured by the British. Some of these Muslim ex-soldiers participated in aiding Arabs in the [1948 Arab-Israeli war](/source/1948_Arab-Israeli_war). {{cite web|url=http://www.sanfranciscosentinel.com/?p=12613|title=Fascist Muslim Group Expected to Loot Tel Aviv in 1948|work=San Francisco Sentinel|access-date=2011-01-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101208104339/http://www.sanfranciscosentinel.com/?p=12613|archive-date=2010-12-08|url-status=live}} ==See also== * [Islam and violence](/source/Islam_and_violence) * [Islamic Military Counter Terrorism Coalition](/source/Islamic_Military_Counter_Terrorism_Coalition) * [Islamic terrorism](/source/Islamic_terrorism) * [Mujahideen](/source/Mujahideen) * [Violence in the Quran](/source/Violence_in_the_Quran) ===Political and military aspects=== * [Political aspects of Islam](/source/Political_aspects_of_Islam) * [Islamism](/source/Islamism) * [Muhammad as a general](/source/Muhammad_as_a_general) ===Related concepts=== * [Crusade](/source/Crusade) * [Holy war](/source/Religious_war) * [Religious wars](/source/Religious_wars) * [List of wars and battles in pre-Islamic Arabia](/source/List_of_wars_and_battles_in_pre-Islamic_Arabia) ==References== {{Reflist|30em}} *{{cite book| title = Bosnian Muslims in the Second World War | last = Hoare | first = Marko Attila | year = 2014 | publisher = Oxford University Press | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=TfQEAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA127 | isbn = 978-0-199-32785-0 }} *{{cite book| title = Himmler's Bosnian Division; The Waffen-SS Handschar Division 1943-1945 | last = Lepre | first = George | year = 1997 | publisher = [Schiffer Publishing](/source/Schiffer_Publishing) | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=rPZmAAAAMAAJ | isbn = 978-0-7643-0134-6 }} *{{cite book| title = The Waffen SS: Hitler's Elite Guard at War, 1939-1945 | last = Stein | first = George H. | year = 1984 | publisher = [Cornell University Press](/source/Cornell_University_Press) | url = https://archive.org/details/waffensshitlers00stei | url-access = registration | via = [Internet Archive](/source/Internet_Archive) | page = [https://archive.org/details/waffensshitlers00stei/page/184 184] | isbn = 978-0-801-49275-4 }} *{{cite book| title = War and revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941-1945: occupation and collaboration | last = Tomasevich | first = Jozo | year = 2001 | author-link = Jozo Tomasevich | publisher = Stanford University Press | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=fqUSGevFe5MC&pg=PA497 | isbn = 978-0-8047-3615-2 }} ==Further reading== * [Joel Hayward](/source/Joel_Hayward) (2012). ''[Warfare in the Qur'an](/source/Warfare_in_the_Qur'an)'' English Monograph Series – Book No. 14. Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre, Amman, Jordan. {{ISBN|978-9957-428-50-1}}. * Joel Hayward (2017). [http://rissc.jo/war-is-deceit-by-professor-joel-hayward/ ''"War is Deceit": An Analysis of a Contentious Hadith on the Morality of Military Deception''.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190130213451/http://rissc.jo/war-is-deceit-by-professor-joel-hayward/ |date=2019-01-30 }} English Monograph Series – Book No. 24. Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre, Amman, Jordan. {{ISBN|978-9957-635-17-6}}. * Joel Hayward (2018). [http://rissc.jo/civilian-immunity-by-professor-joel-hayward/ ''Civilian Immunity in Foundational Islamic Strategic Thought: A Historical Enquiry''.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190130213326/http://rissc.jo/civilian-immunity-by-professor-joel-hayward/ |date=2019-01-30 }} English Monograph Series – Book No. 25. Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre, Amman, Jordan. {{ISBN|978-9957-635-29-9}}. * Joel Hayward (2020). ''[https://rissc.jo/islamic-principles-of-war/ Islamic Principles of War for the 21st Century]''. English Monograph Series – Book No. 26. Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre, Amman, Jordan. {{ISBN|978-9957-635-54-1}}. * Joel Hayward (2022). ''[https://thewarriorprophet.com/]''. Swansea, UK: Claritas Books. {{ISBN|9781800119802}}. * ''Djihad'' in: ''[The Encyclopaedia of Islam](/source/The_Encyclopaedia_of_Islam)''. * Alfred Morabia, Le Ğihâd dans l'Islâm médiéval. "Le combat sacré" des origines au XIIe siècle, Albin Michel, Paris 1993 * [Rudolph Peters](/source/Rudolph_Peters): ''Jihad in Classical and Modern Islam'' * Nicola Melis, "A Hanafi treatise on rebellion and ğihād in the Ottoman age (XVII c.)", in ''Eurasian Studies'', Istituto per l'Oriente/Newham College, Roma-Napoli-Cambridge, Volume II; Number 2 (December 2003), pp. 215–26. * [Rudolph Peters](/source/Rudolph_Peters), ''Islam and Colonialism: The Doctrine of Jihad in Modern History'', "Religion and Society", Mouton, The Hague 1979. * [Muhammad Hamidullah](/source/Muhammad_Hamidullah): ''Muslim Conduct of State'' * Muhammad Hamidullah: ''Battlefields of the Muhammad'' * [John Kelsay](/source/John_Kelsay): ''Just War and Jihad'' * [Reuven Firestone](/source/Reuven_Firestone): ''Jihad. The Origin of Holy War in Islam'' * [Hadia Dajani-Shakeel](/source/Hadia_Dajani-Shakeel) and [Ronald Messier](/source/Ronald_Messier): ''The Jihad and Its Times'' * [Majid Khadduri](/source/Majid_Khadduri): ''War And Peace in the Law of Islam'' * [Hizb ut Tahrir](/source/Hizb_ut_Tahrir): ''The Obligation of Jihad in Islam'' * [Hassan al-Banna](/source/Hassan_al-Banna): ''Jihad'' * Suhas Majumdar: Jihad: The Islamic Doctrine of Permanent War; New Delhi, 1994 * [Biancamaria Scarcia Amoretti](/source/Biancamaria_Scarcia_Amoretti), Tolleranza e guerra santa nell'Islam, "Scuola aperta", Sansoni, Firenze 1974 * J. Turner Johnson, The Holy War Idea in Western and Islamic Traditions, Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, Pa. 1997 *{{cite book |last = Malik |first = S. K. |year = 1986 |title = The Quranic Concept of War |url = https://wolfpangloss.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/malik-quranic-concept-of-war.pdf |publisher = Himalayan Books |isbn=81-7002-020-4 }} ==External links== {{wikiquote}} * [http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761582255 Jihad] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20090301050719/http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761582255 Archived] 2009-10-31), [Encarta Encyclopedia](/source/Encarta) * [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/303857/jihad Jihad], [Encyclopædia Britannica](/source/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica) Category:Jihad Category:Criticism of Islam Category:Islam-related controversies Category:Military history of Islam Category:Islam and violence --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Islam and war](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_war) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_war?action=history)). 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