Book 2021
Hidden Caliphate
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021
- Religions
- Muslim saints
- History
- Biography
- Sufism
- Political aspects
- Caliphate
- Islam and politics
"Waleed Ziad examines the development of Sufi-led Muslim revivalist networks. From the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, Naqshbandi-Mujaddidi Sufis inspired reformist movements and articulated responses to the fracturing of Muslim political power. They fostered a "hidden caliphate" that sustained cohesion from Afghanistan to Siberia and China"--