
Longing for the Lost Caliphate: A Transregional History
Mona Hassan.
Princeton UP, 2018.
"The thwarted efforts of the early twentieth century to restore a caliphate have primarily dissolved into warm associations and memories of an institution that once represented Muslim piety, cosmopolitanism and prestige."
—From Longing for the Lost Caliphate, by Mona Hassan
--Marina Alia
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