Matthias Küntzel: Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East | Matthiaskuentzel

BY BARRY RUBIN & WOLFGANG G. SCHWANITZ, reviewed · By Matthias Küntzel

Few topics are a source of such controversy among historians of the Middle East as the question of the extent of the wartime relationship between the Nazis and the Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin el-Husaini, and of the significance of those ties to the evolution of developments in the Middle East from 1945 to the present day.