Word: effendi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that did not settle it. The Agar Khan of Bombay, the Emir of Afghanistan, Sultan Mulai Yusef of Morocco, King Fuad of Egypt all wanted to be Calif. The President of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Pasha, said that the Turkish Parliament would in the future impersonate the Calif. Abdul-Medjid Effendi, last Turkish Calif, declared with his predecessor, Mohammed VI, that his deposition as Calif was illegal and sacrilegious. Then from the heart of Islam, Husein Ibn Ali, a descendent of the Prophet, declared himself Calif and without more ado he assumed the Califate (TIME, March 24). A torrent of rage...
...Angora, capital of Turkey, the Grand National Assembly passed a bill providing for the deposal of the Calif, Abdul Medjid Effendi, and the abolition of the Califate...
After deposing Sultan Mahammad VI in 1922, the Angora Government elected Abdul Medjid Effendi to the Califate. Now it has deposed him. The meaning of this sudden change of countenance was said to be that the Calif proved himself not pliable enough to the Government; he, therefore...
...Angora, the Grand National Assembly passed a bill providing for the deposition of Abdul Medjid Effendi, Caliph of all the Mussulmans...
Hoja Mussa Kiazam Effendi, Minister of Religious Affairs; Seyid Bey, Minister of Justice; General Kiazim Pasha, Minister of National Defence; General Ismet Pasha, Minister of Foreign Affairs; Sefa Bey, Minister of Education; Hassan Fehmi Bey, Minister of Finance; Mahmud Essad Bey, Minister of National Economy; Feyzi Bey, Minister of Public Works; Dr. Riza Nur Bey, Minister of Health; Marshal Fevzi Pasha, Chief of the General Staff...