Pan-Islamic ideology, the attempt to achieve Muslim unity, takes two forms, radical (which would eliminate borders and create a single Muslim state) and moderate (which only seeks harmony between Muslim states). While providing a survey of the tensions between these two themes going back to the 1860s, Landau concentrates on several times and places: the final decades of the Ottoman Empire, Central Asian Muslims living under Moscow's rule, Indian Muslims living under London's rule, the conventions of the interwar period, and the florescence of organizations in recent years.
Landau's research is impeccable and his data fascinating, yet the wooden presentation of his research makes it something of an effort to absorb.
[For the Schulze review, click here.]
