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IAFS 1000
The Khilafat Movement
Announcements• Friday, March 11: meet at Norlin Library
Room E260B
Today’s Lecture
• Khilafat movement
• Paper topic discussion
• Reading discussion
CountryMuslim
PopulationPercentage of
Muslims
1 Indonesia 228,582,000 88.20%
2 Pakistan 172,800,000 97%
3 Bangladesh 162,221,000 87%
4 India 160,945,000 13.4%
5 Egypt 79,089,000 90%
6 Nigeria 78,056,000 50%
7 Iran 76,923,000 98%
8 Turkey 73,723,000 99%
9 Sudan 43,939,000 70%
10 Algeria 34,895,000 99%
Khilafat Movement:Significance
• Pan-Islam
• Western fears
• Role today?
Al Qaida and the Caliphate
http://web.archive.org/web/20050305074732/www.usdoj.gov/ag/manualpart1_1.pdf
Al Qaida training manual
Khilafat Movement
• Shock of 1857
• Indian Muslim pride in Ottoman empire
– sultan as caliph (spiritual leader of [Sunni] Muslim umma)
– movement to protect caliphate
– Indian vs. Turkish vs. Arab views
• 1924: Turkish abolition of caliphate
Khilafat Movement (cont.)
• Lasting symbolic power
• Br fear of Muslim unrest
• Muslim recognition of this fear
• Intl Muslim protest as powerful tool
Islam
http://www.al-islam.org/gallery/photos/d8.gif
له الله = ال =“the God”
جهاد = “struggle, striving”
• Allah
• Jihad =
• Not monolithic