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Khilafat in history and Indian politics

ʻAlī, Ẓahīr, 1949- author

Overview

This book is a brief historical account of Khilafat, an Islamic political institution mired in controversies from its inception. It is an attempt to present an objective critique of the Islamic polity that, in a way, was primarily responsible for crafting schisms in Islam with its commencement. By the time the last Khilafat of the Ottomans came to an end in the aftershock of the Second World War, the Muslim political elite in India launched a movement for the restoration and continuation of the Ottoman Khilafat. The most paradoxical dimension of the issue was that in the Arab peninsula, the epicenter of Islam, the people were struggling to cast away the yoke of the Ottoman Khilafat, then why were the Indian Muslims emotionally involved in a movement that was vehemently condemned and assailed by a majority of Muslims outside the Indian subcontinent?

• Publisher: Routledge ; Aakar
• Subject: 1919-1947 / Khilafat movement. / Social history. / Histoire sociale. / social history. / Autonomy and independence movements / Khilafat movement / Politics and government / India History Autonomy and independence movements. / India Politics and government 1919-1947. / Inde Politique et gouvernement 1919-1947. / India
• ISBN: 1032666722, 9781032666723, 9781032666747, 1032666749

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