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Combatants of Muslim Origin in European Armies in the Twentieth Century: Far from Jihad

By Xavier Bougarel , Raphaëlle Branche , Cloé Drieu

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2017
ISBN
1474249426, 9781474249423
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (2869339 bytes)
Pages
256\0
Time added
2020-11-19 18:29:03

Description

During the two World Wars that marked the 20th century, hundreds of thousands of non-European combatants fought in the ranks of various European armies. The majority of these soldiers were Muslims from North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia, or the Indian Subcontinent. How are these combatants considered in existing historiography? Over the past few decades, research on war has experienced a wide-reaching renewal, with increased emphasis on the social and cultural dimensions of war, and a desire to reconstruct the experience and viewpoint of the combatants themselves. This volume reintroduces the question of religious belonging and practice into the study of Muslim combatants in European armies in the 20th century, focusing on the combatants viewpoint alongside that of the administrations and military hierarchy.

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