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Armies Of God - Islam and Empire on the Nile, 1869-1899 (Paperback)
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Armies Of God - Islam and Empire on the Nile, 1869-1899 (Paperback)
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This is the story of what happens when a liberal minded Prime
Minister is caught between two sets of fundamentalists, one
Islamic, the other Christian. It could be a tale of our time. But
this is actually the story of Islam and the Empire on the Nile c.
1869. In the late 19th century the river Nile became the setting
for the first major encounter between the West and Islam in the
modern era. In an extraordinary collision between Europeans, Arabs
and Africans, three empires rose in the space of thirty years. In
the climax of this drama, played out in a remote part of the Sudan,
we see the rise of the British Empire to its most glorious heights,
but also the seeds of its fall. The personalities are legends:
William Gladstone, General Gordon, Winston Churchill and General
Kitchener. Yet this is a story also told through the eyes of the
outsiders - a missionary, a slave trader, a palace clerk and an
ordinary soldier. Using never before transcribed material from
newly translated government papers in Cairo and Khartoum, Green
will tell both sides of the story, using his acclaimed skill as a
story-teller so that the effect is that of an old photo album whose
recurring characters and themes carry a wide sweep of time and
events, and tells the story of a time when good intentions became
compromised, finally giving way to realpolitik, and how on such
changes of attitude empires rise and fall.
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