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PZ 2934/37 'The Caliphate (of Islam)' [19r] (37/136)
The record is made up of 1 file (65 folios). It was created in 10 May 1930-8 Mar 1939. It was written in English and French. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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Extract from a Note dated the 5th
April 1957 by the Assistant Direc
tor, Intelligence bureau.
"The idea of the revival of the Caliphate is absurd
and betrays a^gross ignorance of the Lohammadan juris_ruaence
on tile part of its sponsors•
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In Muhammadanism ’Khalifa 1 or Caliph is the title
given to the successor of Prophet Lonamed., who is vested with
absolute authority in all matters of State, ooth Civil and
Religious, as long as he rules in conformity with the law
of the ’Quran 1 and ’Hadis’. It is held to be an essential
principle in the establishment of the office that there shall
be only one ’Khalifa’ at one time, for the Prophet said:-
’Yihen two Khalifas have been set up, put the last to death
and preserve t.ue other, tor the last is a rebel’• Accordingly
to the Sunni law, it is absolutely necessary that the Khalifa
be *a man, an adult, a sane person, a free man, a learned
divine, a powerful ruler, a just person and one of the
piraish* (i.e., of the tribe to which the Prophet himself
belonged). The Sniaa hold that he should be one of the
descend nts of the Prophet’s own family. It is, however, x
agreed by all parties that ’Khilafat’ is elective and not
.i .
hereditary* According to the ortnodox law oi Sunnis it is
incuabeft upon the ’united body of Muslims’ to appoint a
Khalifa for the protection of their religion, as without such
an officer it is impossible to maintain the orders of the
Muslim law, such as heritage, Jihad, punishment ana the
various ordinances of Islam*
The followin are some of the injunctions of the
Prophet regaixLn^ the ’Khalifa’
*Pxe who acknowledges an Imam (Khalifa) must obey him
as far as he can, and if a pretender cones, kill him*.
* Vhomever G-od appoints an Imam (Khalifa) and he does
not protect his ,.,eoMLe. shall never smell the smells of
paradise• 1
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The file contains mainly despatches received by the Foreign Office, reporting on the Egyptian proposal to establish a modern Islamic Caliphate under King Farouk. The main correspondents are Sir Miles Lampson, British Ambassador to Egypt, and Sir Reader William Bullard, Minister at the British Legation, Jedda. They comment on the reaction and support for the revival of the institution of the Caliphate among Muslim leaders Ibn Saud (King of Saudi Arabia) and the Aga Khan (Aga Khan III), as well as among Egyptian and Turkish government ministers. The file also contains Government of India correspondence from the Director of the Intelligence Bureau in the Home Department, concerning the religious propaganda activities of Egyptian ulema (Muslim scholars) sent abroad, and a report about the likely reaction of Indian Muslims to a revival of the Caliphate. There is a personal memorandum in French, from the former Turkish minister General Chérif Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. to the British Government in 1930, advocating a Caliphate in Muslim India under the rule of the exiled, former Ottoman Caliph Abdul Medjid II. There are news articles published in the Pratap , Lahore, The Egyptian Gazette , Cairo and the journal Great Britain and the East , London.
The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (65 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 67; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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- IOR/L/PS/12/230
- Title
- PZ 2934/37 'The Caliphate (of Islam)'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:9v, 12r:15v, 17r:22v, 25r:62v, 67r:67v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence