The Ottoman Caliphate (Ottoman Turkish: خلافت مقامى, romanized: hilâfet makamı, lit. 'office of the caliphate') was the claim of the heads of the Turkish...

Rashidun Caliphate (632–661), the Umayyad Caliphate (661–750), and the Abbasid Caliphate (750–1517). In the fourth major caliphate, the Ottoman Caliphate, the...

The Ottoman Caliphate, the world's last widely recognized caliphate, was abolished on 3 March 1924 (27 Rajab AH 1342) by decree of the Grand National...

1924, replacing the Ottoman Caliphate, which was abolished by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Even though the Banu Hashim held the caliphate at various points in...

caliph for two more years, after which the caliphate was abolished in 1924. In March 1924, when the Ottoman Caliphate was abolished, Hussein bin Ali, King of...

on 29 October 1923. In March 1924, the Caliphate was abolished, marking the end of Ottoman influence. The Ottoman entry into World War I with the Central...

Malaya. This event marked the end of the Ottoman Dynasty, not of the Ottoman State nor of the Ottoman Caliphate. On 19 November, the Grand National Assembly...

of the Ottoman Empire Osmanoğlu family, modern members of the family Ottoman Caliphate 1517–1924 Ottoman Turks, a Turkic ethnic group Ottoman architecture...

significantly expanded under the Umayyad Caliphate (661–750) and consequently the Abbasid Caliphate (750–1258). The Ottoman Sultan, Selim I (1512–1520) reclaimed...

literature, painting and music, in Turkey. After the abolition of the Ottoman caliphate, he was succeeded for a few months by Hussein bin Ali, who was mostly...

the establishment of the Turkish Republic and the abolition of the Ottoman Caliphate. It then follows the stories of their descendants, who now live in...

the Ottomans. This established the Ottoman Caliphate, with the sultan as its head, thus transferring religious authority from Cairo to the Ottoman throne...

that the British planned to create a puppet-caliphate in the Arabian Peninsula to replace the Ottoman Caliphate. Although France ruled over a great Muslim...

The Emirate of Córdoba, from 929, the Caliphate of Córdoba, was an Arab Islamic state ruled by the Umayyad dynasty from 756 to 1031. Its territory comprised...

London, allocated nominal land to the Ottoman state and allowed it to retain the designation of "Ottoman Caliphate" (similar to the Vatican, a sacerdotal-monarchical...

capital of the Ottoman Empire. Sunni Islam was the official religion of the Ottoman Empire. The highest position in Islam, caliphate, was claimed by...

sultans starting with Selim I, which was established as the Ottoman Caliphate. The Ottoman sultan, pâdişâh or "lord of kings", served as the Empire's sole...

The Sokoto Caliphate (Arabic: دولة الخلافة في بلاد السودان), also known as the Sultanate of Sokoto, was a Sunni Muslim caliphate in West Africa. It was...

'Abd al-Wahhab did not acknowledge their caliphate claims, an assertion made by Sultan Abdul Hamid I after Ottoman defeat in the 1770s Russo-Turkish war...

The Ottoman dynasty (Turkish: Osmanlı Hanedanı) consisted of the members of the imperial House of Osman (Ottoman Turkish: خاندان آل عثمان, romanized: Ḫānedān-ı...

"Erdoğan in Turkey is basically trying to create something like the Ottoman Caliphate, with him as caliph, supreme leader, throwing his weight around all...

Lyautey, who also defended that the Ottoman Caliphate was better for French interests than the Sharifian Caliphate. They believed that having a new influential...

during the last years of the Ottoman Empire and was a prominent feature of Atatürk's reforms. Under his leadership, the caliphate was abolished, and the secular...

The symbols in the coat of arms represent the following: Green flag Ottoman Caliphate on the left, Red flag of the state on the right, Elaborate turban...

association to the Ottoman sultans. In the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca (1774), the Russian Empire hat to recognize the Ottoman Caliphate because Islamic legitimacy...

The Rashidun Caliphate (Arabic: ٱلْخِلَافَةُ ٱلرَّاشِدَةُ, romanized: al-Khilāfah ar-Rāšidah) consisted of the first four successive caliphs (lit. 'successors')...

Kadın, was the first consort of Abdulmejid II, the last Caliph of the Ottoman Caliphate. Of Turkish, or Ubykh origin, Şehsuvar Hanım was born in 1881. She...

the Muslim Community of Albania arose that severed ties with the Ottoman Caliphate and placed a focus on localising Islam in Albania. The Albanian state...

The Umayyad Caliphate or Umayyad Empire (UK: /uːˈmaɪjæd/, US: /uːˈmaɪæd/; Arabic: ٱلْخِلَافَة ٱلْأُمَوِيَّة, romanized: al-Khilāfa al-Umawiyya) was the...

The reasons for the Ottoman action were not immediately clear. On 11 November 1914, Mehmed V, Sultan of the Ottoman Caliphate, declared Jihad (meritorious...