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 fiction of the Ottoman caliphate. In 1517, Sultan Selim I brought the Caliph Al-Mutawakkil III, a distant descendant of the Abbasids who were expelled from Baghdad in 1258, from Cairo to Istanbul.

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 ...

The mystery begins in 1931, in Nice on the French Riviera, when the last caliph of Islam was in exile. In November of that year, his daughter, Princess Durrusehvar, married Prince Azam Jah, the ...

There is only one way for Indian Muslims to be respected in the Muslim world: be Indian above all, and situate your ...

Durru Shehvar Sultan, daughter of the exiled Ottoman Caliph, grew up in France before marrying the eldest son of India’s ...

But the caliphate did not survive the Ottoman empire’s turbulent collapse and disintegration by the end of World War I. By 1924, Turkey’s new leaders — chiefly the ruthlessly modernizing ...

Londoners may be interested to know that a variety of historical links to the Ottoman Empire are closer to home than they ...