Roegerland wrote:Fatimida wrote:What was the "last one"?
The Rashidun, Abbasids?
Nope, the last declared "Islamic Caliphate" with a Caliph known to most as the Islamic State.Fatimida wrote:Or do you mean ISIS? In which case, they aren't Muslims by any measure. They're apostates and they deserved what they got.
By your measure perhaps, they certainly thought they were muslims, so why should I not believe them?
No, the last caliphate was the Ottoman Empire, and by 1908 it was a parliamentary monarchy. Not mentioning that during its last 400 years it was partly owned by Greeks.
Quite a few grand vizirs were SERBIAN.
Atatürk was half Macedonian.
The Sultan had only power over the muslim population, Christians and Jewish were ruled by religious representatives named by the Sultan.