Middle East Quarterly, September 22nd, 2007
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Islamic Imperialism: A History. By Efraim Karsh. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. 276 pp. $30. Karsh, head of the Mediterranean Studies Programme at King's College in London, situates historic Islamic expansionism--as well as the contemporary violent acts of bin Laden and other jihadi terrorists--within the context of the imperative Muhammad gave to his followers: "I was ordered to fight all men until they say, 'There is no god but Allah.'" The contemporary impulse of violentjihadi groups to establish Islamic states from Indonesia to Nigeria, argues Karsh, is no...
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