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Parution : Ömer Koçyiğit, Challenging the Caliphate. Wahhabism and Mahdism in the Late Ottoman Empire, Cambridge University Press, 2026

 

Challenging the Caliphate
Wahhabism and Mahdism in the Late Ottoman Empire

Ömer Koçyiğit

 

 

 

 

 

How did steam transportation and print culture reshape the Ottoman Empire’s centre-periphery relations in the nineteenth century? Challenging the Caliphate offers a fresh perspective on modernization in the Muslim world, exploring how these developments in infrastructure, technology, and communications impacted ideas of the Caliphate, Wahhabism, and Mahdism. Through rich archival research and microhistorical examples, Ömer Koçyiğit demonstrates how new technologies influenced political authority, religious movements, and the spread of ideas. Koçyiğit further explores how the Ottoman Empire dealt with the rise of the Wahhabi movement in the Najd and the Mahdi movement in Sudan. This study situates the Ottoman experience within global transformations, offering a deeper understanding of state, resistance, and connectivity while highlighting how emerging technologies shaped the modern Muslim world.

  • Offers a global contextualisation of the late Ottoman Empire during a period of technological developments
  • Utilises a wide range of Ottoman primary sources and archival documents
  • Incorporates microhistorical examples, demonstrating both the local specificities and the larger structural transformations within the global Muslim world

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Chargé de diffusion scientifique (5 mars 2026). Parution : Ömer Koçyiğit, Challenging the Caliphate. Wahhabism and Mahdism in the Late Ottoman Empire, Cambridge University Press, 2026. IISMM. Consulté le 14 avril 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/15tat


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