This article discusses the debate in Islamic thought (Sunni and Shiʿi) about the institution of the caliphate and its importance at specific historical moments (Umayyads, Abbasids, Fatimids, Mongol invasion), as well as the split among modernists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as to whether the post is needed for religious and political reforms.
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