Demystifying the caliphate : historical memory and contemporary contexts / Madawi Al-Rasheed, Carool Kersten and Marat Shterin (editors).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-294) and index.

Introduction. The caliphate : nostalgic memory and contemporary visions / Madawi Al-Rasheed, Carool Kersten and Marat Shterin ; The abolition of the caliphate in historical context / Basheer M. Nafi -- South Asian Islam and the idea of the caliphate / Muhammad Qasim Zaman -- Who speaks of what caliphate? : the Indian Khilafat Movement and its aftermath / Jan-Peter Hartung -- Mustafa Kemal's abrogation of the Ottoman Caliphate and its impact on the Indonesian nationalist movement / Chiara Formichi -- The Wahhabis and the Ottoman Caliphate : the memory of historical antagonism / Madawi Al-Rasheed -- The caliphate as nostalgia : the case of the Iraqi Muslim Brotherhood / Fareed B. Sabri -- The caliphate in contemporary Arab TV culture / Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen -- Khilafa as the viceregency of humankind : religion and state in the thought of Nurcholish Madjid / Carool Kersten -- Promoting the caliphate on campus : debates and advocacies of Hizbut Tahrir student activists in Indonesia / Claudia Nef -- Adhering to neo-caliphatism : the ideological transformation of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan / Emmanuel Karagiannis -- The caliphate in the west : the diaspora and the new Muslims / Reza Pankhurst -- Caliphate in the minds and practices of young Muslims in the northern Caucasus / Marat Shterin and Akhmet Yarlykapov.

'Demystifying the Caliphate' sheds light on both the historical debates following the demise of the last Ottoman Caliphate and controversies surrounding the recent calls to resurrect it, transcending alarmist agendas to answer fundamental questions about why the memory of the Caliphate lingers on among diverse Muslims.