Challenging the Caliphate
Challenging the Caliphate
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USDHow 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.
- Offers a global contextualisation of the late Ottoman Empire during a period of technological developments
- Utilises a wide range of Ottoman primary sources and archival documents
- Incorporates microhistorical examples, demonstrating both the local specificities and the larger structural transformations within the global Muslim world
Product details
December 2025Hardback
9781009663496
292 pages
228 × 152 mm
Not yet published - available from December 2025
Table of Contents
- 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.
