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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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 by Sultan Ibn Saud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Califate Congress | 5/24/1926 | See Source »

...Calif or Khalifa is, of course, the "Successor" or "Representative" of Mohammed, and is theoretically the temporal and spiritual sovereign of all Mohammedans. Strictly orthodox Mohammedans contend that the Turkish Sultans were never "true califs," charging that they were not actually descended from Mohammed. Since the Sultans of Turkey "assumed" (bought) the Califate in 1517, it may fairly be said to be "extinct" or "lost," at present, if their claims were invalid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Califate Congress | 5/24/1926 | See Source »

Mohammed VI. At San Remo, Italy, the deposed Sultan Mohammed VI kept in close touch with the doings of the Cairo conference. When he ascended the Turkish throne (1918) his subjects numbered 12 millions. His realm embraced both Turkey in Europe and Turkey in Asia - nearly half a million square miles, including Anatolia, Arabia, Palestine, Mesopotamia and Kurdistan. The Turkish Republic now holds in Europe only the zone of Constantinople, and in Asia little more than Anatolia and Kurdistan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Califate Congress | 5/24/1926 | See Source »

What did it mean? The correspondents of all the great news agencies at Rome cabled that "a trustworthy source" had supplied them with tidings of a secret pact between Greece and Italy, said to envision the ousting of Turkey from her Aegean and Mediterranean possessions between Constantinople and the port of Adalia (east of Rhodes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Rome's Birthday | 5/3/1926 | See Source »

...specific objects of the pact were said to be the return to Greece of Smyrna and its hinterland, and the occupation by Italy of Adalia (Turkey) and its hinterland along the Bagdad railway. Thus Italy would seize at last the territory promised her in the secret Pact of London (1915), which induced her to join the Allies in the World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Rome's Birthday | 5/3/1926 | See Source »

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