Longing for the Lost Caliphate: A Transregional History

CHAPTER 4 Manifold Meanings of Loss: Ottoman Defeat, Early 1920s -- Notions from Afar -- The Turkish Republic -- The Levant -- CHAPTER 5 In International Pursuit of a Caliphate -- An Internationalist Era -- Promoting an International Conference -- Imagining the Global Community and Its Leadership -- A Spiritual Body -- A Caliphal Council -- A Traditional Caliph -- A Global Electorate -- Dampening Hopes -- Unexpected Continuities -- CHAPTER 6 Debating a Modern Caliphate -- İsmail Şükrü (1876-1950) -- Mehmed Seyyid Çelebizade (1873-1925) -- ʻAlī ʻAbd al-Rāziq (1888-1966) -- Muḥammad al-Khiḍr Ḥusayn (1876-1958) -- Mustafa Sabri (1869-1954) -- Said Nursi (1876-1960) -- EPILOGUE The Swirl of Religious Hopes and Aspirations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Author(s): Mona Hassan
Published: 2016
Categories: Caliphate