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Ansari Memorial Series
THE CALIPHATE THE HEJAZ AND THE
SAUDI-WAHHABI NATION-STATE
Imran N. Hosein
MASJID DARUL QUR’AN, LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK
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First published in 1996 by
Masjid Darul Qur’an,
1514 East Third Avenue,
Bayshore, NY 11760
USA
Email: inhosein@hotmail.com
Web: http://imranhosein.org
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Dedicated to my dear brother
Abid Siddiqui
of the Muslim Center of New York
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CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1 British Diplomacy and the Attack on the Caliphate
Chapter 2 The Collapse of the Ottoman Caliphate and the Rise of
the Saudi-Wahhabi Nation-State
The First World War and the Abolition of the Ottoman
Caliphate
The Turkish Nationalists and the Caliphate
The Response of Al-Azhar University to the Abolition of
the Ottoman Caliphate
Chapter 3 The Caliphate Conference, Cairo. May 1926.
Chapter 4 The Saudi-Wahhabi Alternative to the Caliphate – The
World Muslim Congress, Makkah. June-July 1926
Chapter 5 The Old World Of Islam Attempts a Revival: The
General Islamic Congress. Jerusalem. December 1931.
Conclusion
Notes
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PREFACE
This is a third publication in the Ansari Memorial Series, published in honor of
my teacher and Shaikh of blessed memory, Maulana Dr. Muhammad Fadlur
Rahman Ansari (1914 - 1974). The previous two publications were entitled: ‘The
Religion of Abraham and the State of Israel – A View from the Qur’an’, and ‘The
Importance of the Prohibition of Riba in Islam’.
Much of the research work for this book was done during the years 1975-1979 at
the United Nations Library in the Palais des Nations, Geneva, while I was a
doctoral student in International Relations at the Graduate Institute of
International Studies, Geneva.
We are experiencing, at the time of writing a rapidly deteriorating situation in
today’s Muslim World with bloody conflicts inflicting unimaginable suffering on
innocent Muslims in Bosnia, Kashmir, Algeria, Palestine, Chechnya etc.
Yesterday it was fifty thousand Muslim women raped in Bosnia, and today’s
horror stories are about a son who was forced to bite off his Muslim father’s
testicles in Bosnia, and the innocent blind Muslim Shaikh, Omar Abdul Rahman,
who was condemned to life imprisonment in USA (because he posed too great a
threat to the pro-west secular regime which rules Egypt), and who is sexually
humiliated by prison guards whenever he has a visitor at prison.
I am now convinced that the time has at last come for this work to reach the
Muslim public who may now be sufficiently shaken up to look seriously for the
causes of our impotence. They may, as a consequence, take this work seriously
and brush off the expected protests from establishment scholars, and the
governments that they support, around the Muslim world!
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I pray that Allah may accept and bless this humble effort in the cause of Truth.
May it so impact upon Muslims that their eyes will be opened to the fact that the
Saudi-Wahhabi regime that now controls the Haramain and the Hejaz played an
active role in the destruction of the Islamic Caliphate and have since then
constituted an obstruction to the restoration of power for the Ummah. Ameen!
I. N. H.
Masjid Dar al-Qur'an,
November 1996. Jumadi al-Thani 1417
