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Longing for the Lost Caliphate: A Transregional History

Mona Hassan 2016 © Princeton University Press
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  • 9780691166780 (hardcover)
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Cover Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication Page
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations and Maps
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Transliteration and Dates
  • Introduction
    • Early History of the Caliphate
    • The Abbasid Caliphate
    • The Ottoman Caliphate
    • Diachronic Reflections on Symbolic Loss, Destruction, and Renegotiation
  • Chapter 1: Visions of a Lost Caliphal Capital: Baghdad, 1258 CE
    • Mapping an Islamic Cultural Discourse
    • al-Subkī’s Living History: An Enduring Sense of Loss
    • Channeling Muslim Memory through History
    • Loss of the Abbasids
    • Bodily Desecration
    • Literary Dimensions of Religious Rites
    • An Altered Landscape
    • Eschatological Endings
    • The Consolation of Prophetic Transmissions
  • Chapter 2: Recapturing Lost Glory and Legitimacy
    • Remembering and Recreating a Glorious Past
    • Going Beyond Baghdad
    • Commemorating the Caliphate
    • Contesting Caliphs
    • Embracing Communal Continuity
    • Enduring Salience
  • Chapter 3: Conceptualizing the Caliphate, 632–1517 CE
    • Classical Articulation of the Islamic Caliphate as a Legal Necessity and Communal Obligation
    • al-Juwaynī’s Seminal Fifth/Eleventh-Century Resolution
    • Post-656/1258 Theorists of the Caliphate
    • Ghalabah, the Sultanate, and the Caliphate in Ibn Jamāʿah’s Taḥrīr al-Aḥkām (1241–1333)
    • Ibn Taymiyyah’s Views on the Caliphate (1262–1328)
    • Shams al-Dīn al-Dhahabī’s Polemical Treatise on the Grand Imamate (1274–1348)
    • Tāj al-Dīn al-Subkī and the Restoration of Blessings (1327–70)
    • The Inter-School Polemics of Najm al-Dīn al-Ṭarsūsī (1310–57)
    • Ibn Khaldūn’s Political Entanglements and Ideals (1332–1406)
    • The Mamluk Chancery Contributions of al-Qalqashandī (1355–1418)
    • al-Shīrāzī’s Metaphysical Exaltation of the Abbasid Caliph in Cairo (1386–1457)
    • Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī’s Devotional Love of the Prophet’s Family (1445–1505)
  • Chapter 4: Manifold Meanings of Loss: Ottoman Defeat, Early 1920s
    • Notions from Afar
    • The Turkish Republic
    • The Levant
  • Chapter 5: In International Pursuit of a Caliphate
    • An Internationalist Era
    • Promoting an International Conference
    • Imagining the Global Community and Its Leadership
    • A Spiritual Body
    • A Caliphal Council
    • A Traditional Caliph
    • A Global Electorate
    • Dampening Hopes
    • Unexpected Continuities
  • Chapter 6: Debating a Modern Caliphate
    • İsmail Şükrü (1876–1950)
    • Mehmed Seyyid Çelebizade (1873–1925)
    • ʿAlī ʿAbd al-Rāziq (1888–1966)
    • Muḥammad al-Khiḍr Ḥusayn (1876–1958)
    • Mustafa Sabri (1869–1954)
    • Said Nursi (1876–1960)
  • Epilogue: The Swirl of Religious Hopes and Aspirations
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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