o:id
	12690
url
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/12690
o:resource_template
	Book chapter
o:resource_class
	bibo:Chapter
dcterms:title
	Debates on Islam in Imperial Germany
dcterms:publisher
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/25244
dcterms:date
	2014
dcterms:type
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/8476
dcterms:identifier
	https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116174962 Q116174962
	iwac-reference-0000542
dcterms:language
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/8322
dcterms:alternative
	Islam and the European Empires
dcterms:abstract
	This chapter examines the role of Islam in colonial debates in imperial Germany. With the German involvement in Muslim areas in its colonies of Togo, North Cameroon, and German East Africa, experts in Berlin began to discuss policies towards Islam. An important part in these debates was played by experts in Islamic studies, most prominently Martin Hartmann, Diedrich Westermann, and Carl Heinrich Becker. Most of these experts argued for the active employment of Islam to strengthen colonial rule. In Berlin, Islam was also seen as an opportunity to advance German interests in the context of Wilhelm II’s weltpolitik. This was reflected most prominently when the emperor declared that he was a friend of the world’s three hundred million Muslims after visiting Saladin’s tomb in Damascus in 1898, and in imperial Germany’s campaign to mobilize Muslims during the First World War.
dcterms:spatial
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/544
dcterms:provenance
	Oxford
bibo:authorList
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/1626
bibo:editorList
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/1627
bibo:chapter
	11
bibo:doi
	https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199668311.003.0012 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199668311.003.0012
bibo:pageEnd
	253
bibo:pageStart
	231

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