Jul 4, 2025 | S. Sayyid, Blog, 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 | Blog, Mona Hassan, 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 | Blog, 2025, Marchella Ward
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 | Blog, Adnan A. Husain, 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...
