Why was the Caliphate abolished?

Answer 1

The Arabic word 'kalifa' means 'successor' (of Muhammad). Determining the legitimate Caliphate line of succession has always been problematic. Right from Muhammad's death, one group insisted he had designated no successor so they could elect a leader, while another group said he had designated 'Ali, his cousin and son-in-law.

The Ottoman Turks were the last leading power in Islam and the final dynasty to claim the Caliphate office, the last being 'Abdul Majid II (1922-24). A group of reformers called Young Turks revolted against the Ottoman Sultanate in 1908. Sultan Abdul Hamid II was deposed and the Young Turks took over the government, trying to eliminate corruption. However, the genoside of Armenians 1915-17 sickened the West and proved how ingrained corruption and hatred was. (This had been part of the goal to establish a Muslim empire from Istanbul to Manchuria. Christian Armenia stood in the way and some 200,000 Armenians had already been killed in a series of pogroms between 1894 and 1896. In 1915 they were blamed for Turkey's failed war against Russia.)

So perhaps it is more correct to say that the Caliphate was not really abolished - it collapsed in on itself due to its virtuous Islamic foundations being destroyed by political evils.

Few Muslims mourned its passing but the Caliphate was something else. On 3 March 1924, it too was abolished. Many Muslims took Mustafa Kemal Attaturk's presidential words as apostasy: 'The idea of a single Caliph, exercising supreme religious authority over all the peoples of Islam, is an idea taken from fiction, not from reality.'

Attempts to reinstitute the office: Cairo March 1926, Mecca July 1926, Jerusalem 1931, Egypt 1939 - all failed. Many Muslims are far from resigned, however. The idea of an unbroken succession linking the present to the source is cherished by many Muslims and is likely to survive for a long time.

Answer 2

On March 3, 1924, the first President of the Turkish Republic, Gazi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, as part of his reforms, constitutionally abolished the institution of the Caliphate. Its powers within Turkey were transferred to the Turkish Grand National Assembly (parliament) of the newly formed Turkish Republic and the title has since been inactive. Though the Turkish Republic still retains the right to reinstate the Caliphate,[citation needed] it currently seems improbable that it will ever choose to do so.

Scattered attempts to revive the Caliphate elsewhere in the Muslim World were made in the years immediately following its abandonment by Turkey, but none were successful. Hussein bin Ali, a former Ottoman governor of the Hejaz who aided the British during World War I and revolted against Istanbul, declared himself Caliph two days after Turkey relinquished the title. But his claim was largely ignored, and he was soon ousted and driven out of Arabia by the Saudis, a rival clan that had no interest in the Caliphate. The last Ottoman Sultan Mehmed VI made a similar attempt to re-establish himself as Caliph in the Hejaz after leaving Turkey, but he was also unsuccessful. A summit was convened at Cairo in 1926 to discuss the revival of the Caliphate, but most Muslim countries did not participate and no action was taken to implement the summit's resolutions.

Though the title Ameer al-Mumineen was adopted by the King of Morocco and Mullah Mohammed Omar, former head of the now-defunct Taliban regime of Afghanistan, neither claimed any legal standing or authority over Muslims outside the borders of their respective countries. The closest thing to a Caliphate in existence today is the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), an international organization with limited influence founded in 1969 consisting of the governments of most Muslim-majority countries.

Answer 3

On March 3, 1924, the first President of the Turkish Republic, Kemal Atatürk, constitutionally abolished the institution of the Caliphate. Its powers were transferred to the Turkish Grand National Assembly (parliament) of the newly formed Turkish nation-state and the title has since been inactive.

Answer 4

The Caliphate which was abolished in 1924 was only a symbolic as well as a political institution which was too weak to survive. The last caliph Abdul Aziz II was not even able to establish his commands on any other Muslim country / nation.

The Christian leaders of Europe, who conquared and colonize almost all Muslim states in WW-I decided to take an advantage of this situation hence they made a treaty with Mustafa Kamal of Turky to abolish this institution and save Eastern sides of his country. Mustafa Kamal had no choice but to accept this unfair demand of Europe!

In fact this caliphate was not fulfilling the requirements of a real and religious institution.

The religious caliphate, as accepted by Islamic scholars, remained only 30 yeas after the death of prophet Muhammad ( 633 to 663 AD) and ruled by Abu Bakar, Umar, Uthman and finally Ali Ben Abu Talib(R.A).

The religious caliphate ended with the killing of last caliph - Ali Ben Abu Talib (R.A).

Answer 5

The Caliphate was abolished because many Muslims left the Islamic teachings, and failed to follow such teachings. Because Allah allowed the Caliphate to be weak and for the unbelievers to destroy it in World War I.

Answer 6

Because Kamal Ataturk and many of his turkish compatriats who were ruling the Islamic state then known as the ottoman empire which stretched from west africa across mis-southern asia to the indonesian islands not far from australia, became a freemason and embraced the liberal/secular doctrines taught to him by the french and british. They convinced him that religion should not hold a ruling power in the world and that his identity lies in his being turkish not Muslim. Thus began the rapid decline of Islamic power and greatness and the rise of Muslim ignorance and seperate oppressive dicataorships accross the Muslim world who are all pretty much loyal to the west in return for their gauranteeing them continuous power as long as they keep their citizens poor, weak, ignorant, and secular.

Answer 7

It didn't sit well with British Imperialism.

Answer 8

Corruption

Answer 9

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