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