Hyderabad and the Caliphal Crown: Transfer, Custodianship, and the Quiet Architecture of Authority
Rahnuma-E-Deccan Daily |Special Report (RAHNUMA) The abolition of the Ottoman Caliphate in 1924 created not merely an institutional rupture, but a profound theological and political crisis across the Muslim world. While the Turkish Republic formally ended the Caliphate as a state institution, the question of its continuity—symbolic, custodial, and moral—did not disappear. Instead, it migrated […]
Durru Shehvar – The Ottoman Princess who brought Turkey’s ceremonial Caliphate to the Nizam of Hyderabad
How the Imam ul-Mulk Sharifs became Custodian to the Nizam’s 1400 year old imperial title ‘Caliph’ HYDERABAD (RAHNUMA) The name of Her Imperial Highness Princess Durru Shehvar, the elder daughter-in-law of His Exalted Highness the Nizam of Hyderabad, Mir Osman Ali Khan, is remembered for the social and philanthropic work she so zealously engaged in. Born […]
