European powers ruled over three quarters of the Muslim world by the 1920s

Evidence

Unsurprisingly, colonialism was far from welcomed by most of the countries that came under its jurisdiction. Many Muslim countries saw the numerous impositions that were part and parcel of the colonised experience as being derogative and destructive not only to the spirit of Islam but also the indigenous identities of the people it subordinated. It was also seen to be divisive of the ideological ummah – the Islamic belief in a universal brotherhood of Muslims united in faith – by seeking to undermine its doctrinal significance and influence through the imposition of man-made legal and political structures which included the sharply drawn man-made borders that sought to divide, conquer and ultimately rule. Tellingly, by the 1920s, european colonial powers controlled more than three quarters of the Muslim world … Beyond the Second World War, of the 42 Muslim countries that were recognised, only four existed without a colonial power governing it. — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 193

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: By the early 1900s nearly all of the Muslim world fell under European rule — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 175

Related

• By the early 1900s nearly all of the Muslim world fell under European rule (similarity 0.89)
• The 1947 statute preserved European minority dominance over the Muslim majority. (similarity 0.84)
• Postwar Europe’s Muslim population traced to French and British colonial ties (similarity 0.83)
• European empires colonized Muslim states through loans as well as invasion. (similarity 0.82)
• European awareness of Islam stems from direct colonial and demographic experience (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial powers sought to control rather than eradicate Islam (similarity 0.81)
• The fear of Islam intensified amid Ottoman decline and colonial expansion (similarity 0.80)
• Europe’s historical fear of Islam derived from its military expansion reaching multiple continents (similarity 0.80)
• Contemporary anti-Western sentiment and Western Islamophobia both stem from the colonial legacy (similarity 0.79)
• Ottoman decline opened non-hostile European study of Islam (similarity 0.78)
• British Islamophobia intensified only when Muslims ceased to be a safely declining power (similarity 0.78)
• Majorities in several Western countries hold negative views of Islam. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• By the early 1900s nearly all of the Muslim world fell under European rule #corroborates (0.95) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 175