Word: islam
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...potent representatives of Islam who assembled at Cairo (TIME, May 24) to select a new Calif, disbanded last week after irreconcilable rivalries had kept the Califate Congress in an uproar almost from its inception...
...Conference's most notable act was to adopt a resolution stressing the fact that when a new Calif should be appointed he must be a free sovereign capable of defending Islam. Since the two other traditional qualifications for a Calif-descent from Mohammed and possession of the Holy Cities of Mecca and Medina-were not mentioned, it was inferred that these latter qualifications may be explicitly waived at a later date...
...further resolution significantly recorded the opinion that "a Calif can attain that office by conquest, providing always that he be a Moslem." More succinctly, Islam will rally to any Moslem who arises, smites the faithful and their enemies into submission, and proclaims himself Calif-the temporal and spiritual overlord of Islam...
...wise and venerable representatives of Islam who debated these momentous issues were given pause by the following considerations: 1) In 1922 the Turkish Parliament abolished the Sultanate, deposed the Sultan-Calif Mohammed VI and conferred the Califate upon his cousin, Prince Abdul Mejid. Subsequently (1924) it abolished the Califate and banished from Turkey all members of the House of Osman, which had ruled as Sultan and Calif since 1517. Thereupon King Husein of the Hejaz was somewhat irregularly "elected" Calif by his adherents, but abdicated as King in favor of his son Ali, who was subsequently conquered and deposed...
Host. Tranquil, intellectual Ahmed Fuad, Sultan of Egypt, Knight Grand Cross of the Bath, extended formal hospitality to the Califate Congress, but entertained no credulous hopes that he is likely to become temporal and spiritual overlord of Islam should the Conference indorse his claims. Though the British "protectorate" over Egypt terminated in 1922, Britain will tolerate no uprisings in Egypt which might threaten the Suez Canal -"the route to India...