| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 307 pages .) |
| Contents |
The Caliphate: Nostalgic Memory and Contemporary Visions / Madawi Al-Rasheed, Carool Kersten and Marat Shterin -- The Abolition of the Caliphate in Historical Context / Basheer M. Nafi -- South Asian Islam and the Idea of the Caliphate / Muhammad Qasim Zaman -- Who Speaks of What Caliphate?: The Indian Khilafat Movement and its Aftermath / Jan-Peter Hartung -- Mustafa Kemal's Abrogation of the Ottoman Caliphate and its Impact on the Indonesian Nationalist Movement / Chiara Formichi -- The Wahhabis and the Ottoman Caliphate: The Memory of Historical Antagonism / Madawi Al-Rasheed -- The Caliphate as Nostalgia: The Case of the Iraqi Muslim Brotherhood / Fareed Sabri -- The Caliphate in Contemporary Arab TV Culture / Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen -- Khilafa as the Viceregency of Humankind: Religion and State in the Thought of Nurcholish Madjid / Carool Kersten -- Promoting the Caliphate on Campus: Debates and Advocacies of Hizbut Tahrir Student Activists in Indonesia / Claudia Nef -- Adhering to Neo-Capitalism: The Ideological Transformation of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan / Emmanuel Karagiannis -- The Caliphate in the West: The Diaspora and the New Muslims / Reza Pankhurst -- Caliphate in the Minds and Practices of Young Muslims in the Northern Caucasus / Marat Shterin and Akhmet Yarlykapov |
| Summary |
In the Western imagination, the Islamic Caliphate is often linked to acts of beheading, stoning, and discrimination against women and non-Muslim minorities. Rallies in support of resurrecting the Caliphate seem deserving of derision and are believed to be the first steps toward the dismantling of the democratic state. Yet while some Muslims may be nostalgic for the Caliphate, very few are actively making its return a reality. The Caliphate serves more as a powerful symbol and slogan, evoking an imagined past and an ideal Islamic polity. It is also a vastly unstable concept contested by a number of powerful actors within Europe, the Muslim world, and beyond. The essays in this collection demystify the Caliphate for modern readers, clarifying the historical rumors surrounding the demise of the last Ottoman Caliphate and the contemporary controversies informing the call to resurrect it. Contributors include impartial historians and social scientists who concentrate on the fundamental aspects of the Caliphate and unpack its lingering presence in the minds of diverse Muslims. From London to the Northern Caucasus, from Jakarta to Baghdad and Istanbul, contributors explore the Caliphate within the context of global and globalized publics and against the new reality of the Muslim umma as a multifaceted community |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Caliphate.
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Caliphate
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Al-Rasheed, Madawi
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Kersten, Carool
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Shterin, Marat
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| ISBN |
0190257121 |
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9780190257125 |
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