Longing for the lost caliphate : a transregional history / Mona Hassan.

Princeton, New Jersey ; Woodstock, Oxfordshire : Princeton University Press, 2016.

xvii, 390 pages : Grayscale Illustration ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Jacket image: “The last Abbasid caliph of Baghdad al-Musta ‘ṣim brought on his knees before the Mongol commander Hülegü.” Copyright © The British Library Board, All Rights Reserved, Or. 2780, folio 89v.

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Visions of a Lost Caliphal Capital: Baghdad, 1258 CE -- Recapturing Lost Glory and Legitimacy -- Conceptualizing the Caliphate, 632–1517 CE -- Manifold Meanings of Loss: Ottoman Defeat, Early 1920s -- In International Pursuit of a Caliphate -- Debating a Modern Caliphate.