This book explores the decision by the Grand National Assembly of Turkey in 1924 to abolish the caliphate. The Ottoman sultans had long borne the title of calip

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The Caliphate Question combines the disciplines of theology, history, and international relations in order to approach the complex and sensitive issue of how We