CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2018
| Author | Lazaroska, Ivana |
|---|---|
| Title | Governing the Muslim Communities:The Caliphate and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, 1923-1926 |
| Summary | This thesis examines the relationship between the Muslim communities of Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, and the institution of the Caliphate, between 1923 and 1926. It focuses on two particular events, one in 1923, when a delegation from the Kingdom was send to Istanbul to take an oath of allegiance to the new and last Ottoman Caliph Abdülmecid II, and the another in 1926, when the Kingdom prohibited the Muslim communities to attend the Cairo Caliphate Congress. This thesis also shows how much of the Hapsburg and especially Ottoman infrastructure remained in the Kingdom. Transition from empires to a nation- state, as it argues, did not result in a profound break, but was a process that involved continuity. By focusing on, and shedding light to, some of the neglected Ottoman continuities, in this case the relationship with the Caliphate as an institution and idea, the objective of this thesis is to contribute to a scholarship that aims at integrating the Muslims of southeast Europe into scholarly debates about Islam, and reexamines the shared histories between the Middle East and this region. |
| Supervisor | Wilson, Brett |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2018/lazaroska_ivana.pdf |
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