The Forgotten Plan to Revive the Ottoman Caliphate — in India

How Abdülmecid II tried to rewrite Islamic history with a new caliphate in the Nizamate of Hyderabad. “I am not a traitor. Under no circumstance will I go” responded Caliph Abdülmecid II. He was found in his library, studying the Qur’an, clinging to whatever claim he had left to the house of Osman. The expulsion order was delivered to him by Haydar Bey, the governor of Istanbul, along with the…