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Longing for the Lost Caliphate - A Transregional History (Paperback)
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Longing for the Lost Caliphate - A Transregional History (Paperback)
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In the United States and Europe, the word "caliphate" has conjured
historically romantic and increasingly pernicious associations. Yet
the caliphate's significance in Islamic history and Muslim culture
remains poorly understood. This book explores the myriad meanings
of the caliphate for Muslims around the world through the
analytical lens of two key moments of loss in the thirteenth and
twentieth centuries. Through extensive primary-source research,
Mona Hassan explores the rich constellation of interpretations
created by religious scholars, historians, musicians, statesmen,
poets, and intellectuals. Hassan fills a scholarly gap regarding
Muslim reactions to the destruction of the Abbasid caliphate in
Baghdad in 1258 and challenges the notion that the Mongol onslaught
signaled an end to the critical engagement of Muslim jurists and
intellectuals with the idea of an Islamic caliphate. She also
situates Muslim responses to the dramatic abolition of the Ottoman
caliphate in 1924 as part of a longer trajectory of transregional
cultural memory, revealing commonalities and differences in how
modern Muslims have creatively interpreted and reinterpreted their
heritage. Hassan examines how poignant memories of the lost
caliphate have been evoked in Muslim culture, law, and politics,
similar to the losses and repercussions experienced by other
religious communities, including the destruction of the Second
Temple for Jews and the fall of Rome for Christians. A global
history, Longing for the Lost Caliphate delves into why the
caliphate has been so important to Muslims in vastly different eras
and places.
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