The Qur’an, the Great War and the West
On the First World War as a turning point, and the order that replaced the one it destroyed.
The First World War ended the Ottoman Caliphate and remade the map of the Muslim world, and Hosein treats it as the hinge of modern history rather than one conflict among many. He argues that the order established in its aftermath, with its borders, mandates and nation-states, is the political framework the Qur’an’s account of the last age describes, and reads the century since in that light.
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