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The Ottoman caliphate, whose nature was reinterpreted multiple times throughout the empire's history, was to survive for 412 years, from 1512 until 1924. Who was the last caliph?
The Ottoman Caliphate's fall: A story which lives on in Islamic memories The desire to unite all Muslims under a single power eventually proved illusory, and in March 1924 the Turkish Parliament ...
It’s been 100 years since the world had a formally recognized caliphate, a disappearance that’s left a deep imprint on 20th-century politics.
In 1924, Turkish leader Kemal Ataturk officially abolished the Ottoman caliphate. Today, most Western discussions of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), the extremist group that has declared ...
Durru Shehvar Sultan, daughter of the exiled Ottoman Caliph, grew up in France before marrying the eldest son of India’s ...
The then-Turkish government said it transferred the caliphate’s authority from the Ottoman dynasty to the Grand National Assembly in Ankara.
There is only one way for Indian Muslims to be respected in the Muslim world: be Indian above all, and situate your ...
In pursuing the tribal paradigm and for gaining independence, the Arabs colluded with Christian Europeans to dismantle the Ottoman caliphate and Ottoman colonization of the Arab lands, including ...
Londoners may be interested to know that a variety of historical links to the Ottoman Empire are closer to home than they ...
The incongruous arrival of a large and endangered monk seal has distracted Israelis from a period of violence and political unrest.