Department of Eastern Languages and Language-Cultural Studies, Institute of International Relations and World History, Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod.
Docent of the Department of Eastern Languages and Language-cultural science, Institute of International Relations and World History, Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod
Imperial ideology and practice under Abdul Hamid II marked the return of the religious factor: the revival of the Caliphate and the concept of Islamic solidarity. During the reign of Abdul Hamid II “Scenario of power” of the secular and cosmopolitan empire turned into a national-religious myth. Sultan’s reign concept maintained and transformed the dynamic combination of the spiritual and secular elements. The idea of the extraterritoriality of spiritual power has become an essential component of the official ideology of Pan-Islamism.
Keywords:
Imperial ideology; Sultan Abdul Hamid II; the Ottoman Empire; the reign of the concept; the Middle East
