Challenging the Caliphate

Wahhabism and Mahdism in the Late Ottoman Empire

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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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 microhistorical examples, Ömer Koçyiğit demonstrates how new technologies influenced political authority, religious movements, and the spread of ideas. Koçyiğit further explores how the Ottoman Empire dealt with the rise of the Wahhabi movement in the Najd and the Mahdi movement in Sudan. This study situates the Ottoman experience within global transformations, offering a deeper understanding of state, resistance, and connectivity while highlighting how emerging technologies shaped the modern Muslim world.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-01-08
Mått157 x 235 x 21 mm
Vikt611 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieThe Global Middle East
Antal sidor308
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781009663496

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Introduction; Part I. The Caliphate and its Dissenters: 1. The Caliphate: the ottoman state as the guardian of Islam; 2. Wahhabism and Mahdism: two rebellious movements; 3. Wahhabism as a local matter in the age of caravans and manuscripts; Part II. Ottoman Ideological Reactions to Wahhabism and Mahdism in the Age of Steam and Print: 4. The ideological reactions of the centre to Wahhabism; 5. The ottoman mindset versus Sudanese Mahdism; Part III. Ottoman Political Measures Targeting Two Rebellious Movements: 6. Maintaining public order: the surveillance of mobility; 7. Censoring the 'Pernicious Publications' of Wahhabism and Mahdism; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

'Scholarship on 19th century Muslim intellectual history approaches the rise of Wahhabism, Mahdism and increasing reputation of the Ottoman Caliphate as responses to Western imperial hegemony. Challenging the Caliphate corrects this misconception by highlighting Wahhabi and Mahdist movement's dissent with the crucial Tanzimat reforms championed by the Ottoman Caliph, and intra-Muslim polemics in an era of deep transformation propelled by technologies of communication and transformations. Koçyiğit's book dislodges many of the conventional assumptions about the Ottoman policies towards religious dissent and Pan-Islamic solidarity by linking histories of Ottoman Caliphate, Wahhabism and Mahdist thought.' Cemil Aydin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill