For those not conversant with Islamic history Caliph is something of a mix of great Harun al-Rashid's grandeur and tales of idiosyncracies of many other lesser known ones. The institution saw everything in its long journey. Right from Muhammad's last days in A.D. 632 to its abolition in A.D. 1924, it witnessed almost every phase of political and temporal development in Islam.
Abdulmecid II was the last Caliph of Islamic world from the once mighty Ottomans. Then on March 3, 1924, the first , Mustafa Kemal constitutionally abolished the institution of the Caliphate. But in most Muslim minds it always was there in the hearts and minds. Secularism being antithesis to Muslim identity, a Caliph was always needed who shall, one day, unite all the Ummah under banner of Islamic loyalty
Abdulmecid II was the last Caliph of Islamic world from the once mighty Ottomans. Then on March 3, 1924, the first , Mustafa Kemal constitutionally abolished the institution of the Caliphate. But in most Muslim minds it always was there in the hearts and minds. Secularism being antithesis to Muslim identity, a Caliph was always needed who shall, one day, unite all the Ummah under banner of Islamic loyalty
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