Cover of Hidden Caliphate

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"--