Thursday, March 22, 2012

Fall of Caliphate to Rise of Khilafat


Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, you hear this name whenever you think about the fall of caliphate. He was the founder and the first President of Republic of Turkey. An Ottoman Empire, known as Caliphate Usmaniya, a Muslim Superpower which was from Algeria to Baghdad, was crushed not by power allies but by the undefeated Ottoman commander Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. March 3, 1924 Caliphate was abolished when the last caliph was Abdul Medjit who was sent to exile by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk,who wrote to Abdul Medjit that your office, the Khilafat, is no more than a historic relic.