Omar sharif the appointment in samarra

By Jasun Horsley

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Ottoman Archival Documents on the Shrines of Karbala, Najaf, and the Hejaz (ss): Endowment Wars, the Spoils System, and Iranian Pilgrims

1 Introduction

In the present paper I translate, transcribe, and reproduce a set of Ottoman archival documents on the Imamic shrines of Karbala and Najaf, their endowments, the rivalry between factions at the local, regional, and imperial level to control their funds as well as tenures, their visitation by Shiite Iranians, and likewise the pilgrimage of Shiite Iranians to Mecca and Medina. These writs span the time from the mid-seventeenth century up to the early eighteenth century, while further documents that come from the same archives but are not chosen for publication are also referenced in this study. The introduction, especially the observations and commentary that follow the background setting, thematically prunes out and refines the raw information found in these writs. The contrast between the thematic makeup of the introduction and the blocks of data found in the documents highlights how one can draw out from such sources a set of information that those who created and kept these writs did not have in focus. Therefore this introduction, notwithstanding its length, is not a conventional article laying out,

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Caliphate

Islamic form of government

"Caliph" redirects here. For other uses, see Caliph (disambiguation) and Caliphate (disambiguation).

A caliphate (Arabic: خِلَافَةْ, romanized:&#;khilāfah[xi'laːfah]) is an institution or public office under the leadership of an Islamic steward with the title of caliph^[1][2][3] (; خَلِيفَةْkhalīfa[xæ'liːfæh], pronunciation^ⓘ), a person considered a political–religious successor to the Islamic prophet Muhammad and a leader of the entire Muslim world (ummah).^[4] Historically, the caliphates were polities based on Islam which developed into multi-ethnic trans-national empires.^[5][6]

During the medieval period, three major caliphates succeeded each other: the Rashidun Caliphate (–), the Umayyad Caliphate (–), and the Abbasid Caliphate (–). In the fourth major caliphate, the Ottoman Caliphate, the rulers of the Ottoman Empire claimed caliphal authority from until the Ottoman caliphate was formally abolished as part of the secularisation of Turkey. An attempt to preserve the title was tried, with the Sharifian Caliphate, but this caliphate fell quickly after its conquest by the Sultanate of Nejd (present-day Saudi Arabia), leaving the claim in dormancy.