Hello everyone I'm your host James Rogers and this is the History

Here Warfare Podcast. Every week, twice a week I bring you brand new original

episodes on military history and this is a truly original original as it's on a topic that we've never touched on before.

It's on the Anglo-Arab Wars of 1870 to 1920,

and it's an astonishing history of how Victorian attempts to end the African slave trade led to what expert historian Neil Faulkner calls the first modern jihad.

This is the British fight against Islamic jihadist groups who were politically and economically tied into the slave trade and how massive British failures in that battle led to enormous political and military repercussions into the 20th century.

It got to a point where the German Kaiser was supporting these jihadist groups against the British before World War I. It is a revelatory history, what I knew so little about.

So here is Neil Faulkner on the Anglo-era Wars and the war on slavery. Hi Neil, welcome to the history hit Warfare Podcast, Thank you so much for taking the time to come on.

Great picture to come on.

Great picture to be here.

Well, it is great to have you on because we're discussing a topic

and a period of history that we have never covered on warfare before.

And this is the Anglo-Arab Wars.

And I say wars because we're talking about a stretch of time here

between 1870 and 1920.

And it's what you call the first modern jihad. So let's address that word

jihad because most of us might associate it with the war on terror. I've been talking a

lot about Al-Qaeda, a lot about the Taliban recently and

what about ISIS of course as well and jihad's a term that gets kind of entangled with this

form of extreme Islamic terrorism. But is it best to find as a struggle or a holy war? And if so, when we're

talking about the Anglo Arab Wars, who is this jihad against? The idea goes back a very, very long way.

It goes back to the beginning of Islam in the 7th century AD.

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