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The Hashemites (Hardcover)
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The Hashemites (Hardcover)
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List price R385
Loot Price R333
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The story of the Arab Revolt and the Hashemite princes who led it
during the First World War is inextricably linked in modern eyes to
the legend of "Lawrence of Arabia" as portrayed in David Lean's
1962 film. But behind this romantic image lies a harsher reality of
wartime expediency, double-dealing and dynastic ambition, which
shaped the modern Middle East and laid the foundations of many of
the conflicts that rack the region to this day. Arab nationalists
claim that British instigation for the Arab Revolt against the
Ottoman Empire was a commitment to independence for the Arab
people, but in this book Robert McNamara shows how the British
cultivated the Hashemite Sherifs of Mecca more as an alternative
focus during the First World War for Muslim loyalty from the
Ottoman Sultan, who as Caliph had declared a jihad against the
Allies when the Turks joined the Central Powers, than a leader of
an independent and united Arabia. At the same time, the Sykes-Picot
Agreement divided up the Middle East between British and French
spheres of influence. The sense of betrayal that this caused has
coloured Arab nationalists' views of the West ever since. The main
countries of the Middle East Jordan, Syria and Iraq are all the
creations of the post-First World War settlement worked out at the
Paris Peace Conference. The story of the Hashemite dynasty at the
Paris Peace Conference is the story of the birth of the modern
history of a region that is now more than ever at the centre of
world affairs.
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