Sultan 'Abd Al-Hamîd II - Pan-Islamism & fall of the Ottoman Caliphate, by Dr. Ali Muhammad Sallabi, Al Bayyinah éitions

This book deals with the immense efforts that Sultan Abd al-Hamid II deployed in the service of Islam, for the defense of his empire and the unification of the Umma under his authority. It also discusses the circumstances of the emergence of pan-Islamist thought ( al-jâmi a al-islâmiyya ) on the international scene at the time of the sultan. The book details the means implemented by the latter to concretize this strategy of unification of the Islamic world under a single banner. The author also proposes to examine the reasons which led to the fall of the Ottoman Empire. An essential book to understand this pivotal period in the history of the Muslim world