Colloque - When the center cannot hold: Modern Statehood, Global Islam, and the End of the Ottoman Caliphate”

3 March 2024 will mark the centenary of the abolition of the Ottoman Caliphate  by the Turkish Parliament in Ankara, and consequently of the institution  of the Caliphate. We would like to use this centenary as an opportunity  opportunity to organise a two-day conference, inviting researchers  scholars working on the late Ottoman Empire, modern Turkey  the Arab world, as well as West Africa, British India and South  Africa, British India and South Asia, to explore the notion of the caliphate  from the margins, both geographically and conceptually.