Anjuman-i Khuddām-i Kaʿba - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Robinson, Francis
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Leiden
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Brill
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Anjuman-i Khuddām-i Kaʿba was the most significant of the organisations and activities begun by Indian Muslims to support the Ottoman empire as, in the years before the First World War, European powers pressed hard upon it. The original idea, which was proposed in 1913 by Mushīr Ḥusayn Qidwāʾī, a barrister from the powerful Qidwāʾī family of Bāra Banki, and Mawlānā ʿAbd al-Bārī, a leading ʿālim from the Farangī Maḥall family of Lucknow, was to raise money to buy weapons and to support armed forces to protect the