Islam and anticolonial rebellions in north and west Africa, 1914-1918
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Krause, JonathanIssue Date
2020-10-01
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European empires experienced widespread anticolonial rebellions during the First World War. These rebellions occurred for many different reasons, reflecting the diversity of context and history across colonial societies in Africa and Asia. Religion naturally played a strong role in most of the anticolonial rebellions during the First World War, most prominently Islam. This article looks at the role Islam played in two key anticolonial rebellions in North and West Africa: the rebellions in Batna, Algeria and the Kaocen War in Niger, respectively. The article examines how Islam was instrumentalized by rebels, imperial collaborators, and French officers and administrators to further their own ends. Rebels called upon Islam to help inspire anticolonial movements, to bind together diverse populations, and to contextualise their actions in wider socio-political conflicts. Imperial collaborators likewise called on religious authority to assist with European imperial recruitment efforts. French officers and administrators used Islam both as a justification and a target for collective punishment and repression after the rebellions were put down from 1917. This repression is still under-studied in a period usually portrayed as evidencing broad imperial harmony, rather than violent extraction and oppression.Citation
Krause, J. (2020) Islam and anticolonial rebellions in north and west Africa, 1914-1918, The Historical Journal. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X20000357Publisher
Cambridge University PressJournal
The Historical JournalType
Journal articleLanguage
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This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Cambridge University Press in The Historical Journal, forthcoming. The accepted version of the publication may differ from the final published version.ISSN
0018-246XSponsors
This work was generously supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council under the Early Career Grant AH/N001850/1.ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1017/S0018246X20000357
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