Article by Sergei Sherstyukov on the reaction of Muslims in Weimar Germany to the abolition of the Caliphate
The leading European journal “Journal of Modern European History” published an article by Sergei Sherstyukov, a researcher at the International Laboratory for Research on World Order Studies and the New Regionalism and an associate professor at the Department of International Relations at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, “The Responses of Muslims in Weimar Germany to the Abolition of the Caliphate.”
The article examines the violent and controversial reaction of the Muslim community in Weimar Germany to the abolition of the caliphate in the Ottoman Empire in 1924, which was an event that had profound global consequences that were felt far beyond the borders of the collapsed empire. The article examines the formation of the Islamic space in Weimar Germany, and also examines how pan-Islamists in Germany worked to reconcile Islam with modernity on the one hand, while simultaneously trying to offer an alternative view of modernity to the Western one, on the other. The perspective proposed by the author allows us to perceive pan-Islamism not as a movement or ideology in crisis, but rather as an integral part of the global revolutionary and anti-imperial moment.