Jul 4, 2025
The Ghostly Caliphate This blog post is part of the blog series After the Caliphate: Sovereignties and Subjectivities. [i] By S.Sayyid i Blog 114 The significance of the caliphate, its possibilities and calamities, has been contested along familiar lines: for...
Apr 22, 2025
The Enduring Caliphate This blog post is part of the blog series After the Caliphate: Sovereignties and Subjectivities. By Mona Hassan i Blog 109 2024 marks a couple of significant anniversaries. First of all, one hundred years have passed since the Turkish Grand...
Apr 15, 2025
Before the Caliphate This blog post is part of the blog series After the Caliphate: Sovereignties and Subjectivities. By Marchella Ward i Blog 108 “A beginning is always left behind.” – Edward Said (1968, 1) In the words of the late, great, Shuhada Sadaqat,...
Apr 1, 2025
The Caliph’s Two Bodies? This blog post is part of the blog series After the Caliphate: Sovereignties and Subjectivities. By Adnan A. Husain i Blog 106 “My name is Shāh Ismā`īl. I am God’s mystery. I am the leader of all these ghāzīs./ My mother is Fātima, my...
Jan 29, 2020
The Caliphate in Outer Space: The Final Frontier Comments by Sheheen Kattiparambil i Blog 40 In popular Eurocentric parlance, the Caliphate is viewed as a relic of a bygone era, its re-establishment constituting a central objective – if not, the objective – of...
