The Indian Caliphate: Exiled Ottomans and the Billionaire Prince - Couverture rigide

Mulla, Imran

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1805264249 ISBN 13 : 9781805264248

Editeur : C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, 2025

Synopsis

Abdulmecid II was a talented painter, music enthusiast and Francophile. He was also the last Ottoman Caliph, expelled from Istanbul in March 1924 when Turkey abolished the 1,300-year-old Caliphate.

From his villa on the French Riviera, Abdulmecid launched a plan to resurrect the institution and transform world history. Indian politician Shaukat Ali brokered a marital alliance between the Ottomans and the Nizam of Hyderabad, the world's richest prince, who governed a state the size of Italy in the Indian subcontinent.

This saw the union of Islam's two greatest houses, and of the Islamic west and east. It cemented Hyderabad's status as a global Muslim capital, and left Abdulmecid's grandson, the Ottoman prince and the designated Nizam-in-waiting, perfectly placed to claim the Caliphate. But Partition in 1947 and the annexation of Hyderabad the following year spelled the end of this prospect.

Exploring the lives, cultures and sensibilities of an amazing cast of players, The Indian Caliphate details this extraordinary history, which for decades has been consigned to near oblivion. This story of the downfall of two Muslim dynasties reveals a forgotten fact: that India was, in many ways, the very epicenter of the Islamic world in the early twentieth century.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Imran Mulla is a journalist at Middle East Eye in London, before which he studied history at the University of Cambridge. This is his first book.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1805264249
• ISBN 13: 9781805264248
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 280
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