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Internationalism of Islam: the British perception of a muslim menace, 1840-1951 / Ferris, John   Journal Article
Ferris, John Journal Article
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Publication 2009.
Summary/Abstract This article assesses British perceptions of a Muslim menace to imperial security between 1840-1951. These ideas had a long life. They rarely stood in the first rank of imperial concerns, but sometimes in the second. Over this period, British ideas of an Islamic menace focused first on the political self-consciousness of all Muslims than on subterranean bodies which tried to bind masses and elites for political ends, and moved to nationalist movements with a narrow popular base, and finally to those with a mass base. Between 1915 and 1924, fear of a pan-Islamic menace significantly affected British strategic and imperial policy. These ideas involved the interaction of observation, intelligence, perception, learning, fear, ignorance and uncertainty. Their study illuminates the evolution both of British intelligence and of its ideas about the political self-consciousness of its subjects, and the threat that posed to its rule, particularly about the nature and power of colonial nationalism.
Key Words Internationalism  Muslim  British Perception  Islam 
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