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A much needed reference aid for the academic and national defense communities, this book provides a framework for the historical and comparative study of the military culture of Arab society. In sections considering warfare in Arab traditions, military roles in medieval Islam, and Arab armies in the modern age, each chapter's bibliography is preceded by a background essay, designed to assist researchers who are unfamiliar with the general outline of Arab history or the thematic bent of Arabic historiography. The work also includes a glossary and tables of Islamic dynasties.
Written primarily for professors and students of comparative military history, national and service intelligence analysts, and students of Arab-Islamic or Middle Eastern history, this work will also be of use to the generalist historian.
Sommario
Preface
Bibliographic Abbreviations
Introduction
Glossary: Terms and Names with Militaristic Significance
Islamic Dynasties of the Arab East
Warfare in Arab TraditionsThe Mystique of the Raid
The Archetypal Victories of Islam
The Struggle Within and Without the Islamic Domain (Fitna and Jihad)
Military Roles in Medieval IslamThe Muslim Warriors of Medieval Times: Alien Troops and Arab Militias
The Defeat of the Infidels
Arab Armies in the Modern AgeThe Break with the Ottoman Past
The Struggle with Israel
The Quest for Regional Dominance
Index
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John W. Jandora is Supervisory Analyst with U.S. Army Special Operations Command. He is retired from the U.S. Marine Corps at the rank of Colonel, with active service in the Vietnam and Gulf Wars. He is Adjunct Professor of International Relations at Webster University, Fort Bragg-Pope Air Force Base, and a frequent lecturer at U.S. military schools, including the Command and General Staff College. He was twice deployed to Baghdad as a senior advisor in the Iraqi national security arena and served as Senior Advisor to the military and technical schools of the Saudi Arabian National Guard. He is the author of Militarism in Arab Society: An Historiographical and Bibliographical Sourcebook (Greenwood Press, 1997), Saudi Arabia: Cultural Behavior Handbook, and The March From Medina: A Revisionist Study of the Arab Conquests. He took his PhD in Near Eastern studies and Arabic from the University of Chicago.
