ISLAMIC ARCHIVESThe Caliphate or the Supreme ImamateRashīd Riḍā

Published: 1922
Original title: الخلافة أو الإمامة العظمى
Language: Arabic
Type: Book
Rights: Read at the source · Original text in the public domain in most countries (author d. 1935); later translations may still be in copyright.

POLITICAL THOUGHT 1900–1924

The Caliphate or the Supreme Imamate

Name: The Caliphate or the Supreme Imamate
Author: Rashīd Riḍā

الخلافة أو الإمامة العظمى

Rashīd Riḍā

A treatise written as the Ottoman sultanate was abolished, setting out the legal theory of the caliphate and proposing its revival through a reformed, consultative Islamic government.

Keywords: al-Khilafa aw al-Imama al-Uzma, caliphate, abolition of the Ottoman sultanate, Kemalist Turkey, Islamic state

Archived 14 October 2026 · Source: Al-Maktaba al-Shamela

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Riḍā, Rashīd. The Caliphate or the Supreme Imamate. 1922. Archived 14 October 2026 in Islamic Internet Archives: Archive of Modern Islamic Thought. https://islamicarchives.org/works/rashid-rida-the-caliphate-or-the-supreme-imamate/