Makers of Modern World Subscription: The Hashemites: The Dream of Arabia (Makers of the Modern World)

by Alan Sharp (Series Editor), RobertMcNamara (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2010

  $15.51

  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.