Politics

Jihad of 1914

The call for a holy war against the Entente powers proclaimed in the name of the Ottoman Sultan-Caliph on 14 November 1914. Germany hoped it would stir Muslims in British, French and Russian territory to revolt, but there was little response.

Mentioned in

• Chapter III The War of Movement §9 The War Spreads: Turkey, the Seas and the Colonies
• Chapter XIII A World on Fire §1 Why a European War Became a World War§9 The Middle East Remade by Wartime Promises