Parution : Ömer Koçyiğit, Challenging the Caliphate. Wahhabism and Mahdism in the Late Ottoman Empire, Cambridge University Press, 2026

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Abstract

Challenging the Caliphate Wahhabism and Mahdism in the Late Ottoman Empire Ömer Koçyiğit How did steam transportation and print culture reshape the Ottoman Empire's centre-periphery relations in the nineteenth century? Challenging the Caliphate offers a fresh perspective on modernization in the Muslim world, exploring how these developments in infrastructure, technology, and communications impacted ideas of the Caliphate, Wahhabism, and Mahdism. Through rich archival research and...

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Islamic Studies and History Historical Turkish Studies Ottoman Empire History and Society

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Journal / source
Hypotheses (OpenEdition)
Publication date
5 March 2026
Language
EN