the Caliphate and Middle Eastern modernization in the early 20th century /
Nurullah Ardic
New York :
Routledge,
2012.
390 p. :
ill. ;
SOAS/Routledge studies on the Middle East ;
16
index.
Islam and politics in the Middle East -- Modernization and Islam in the Ottoman Empire -- The Caliphate question: historical and discursive context -- Secularization of politics and discourse in the Caliphal center (1908-1916) -- World War I, European colonialism and the Caliphate's periphery (1914-1920) -- Abolition of the Caliphate: religious justification of a secular reform (1919-1924) -- Islam and modernity: confrontation or accommodation?.