The Caliphate, the Hejaz and the Saudi-Wahhabi Nation-State
On the end of the Ottoman Caliphate, the fate of the Hejaz, and the state that rose there.
The Ottoman Caliphate ended in 1924, and the guardianship of Makkah and Madinah passed to a new state formed in alliance with the Wahhabi movement. Hosein traces that transfer through the fate of the Hejaz, the role of British policy and the doctrine of the new rulers, and argues that the consequences for the Muslim world have been more far-reaching than the political histories allow.
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