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The potent representatives of Islam who assembled at Cairo (TIME, May 24) to select a new Calif, disbanded last week after irreconcilable rivalries had kept the Califate Congress in an uproar almost from its inception.<\/p>\n
The Conference’s most notable act was to adopt a resolution stressing the fact that when a new Calif should be appointed he must be a free sovereign capable of defending Islam. Since the two other traditional qualifications for a Calif\u2014descent from Mohammed and possession of the Holy Cities of Mecca and Medina\u2014were not mentioned, it was inferred that these latter qualifications may be explicitly waived at a later date.<\/p>\n
A further resolution significantly recorded the opinion that “a Calif can attain that office by conquest, providing always that he be a Moslem.” More succinctly, Islam will rally to any Moslem who arises, smites the faithful and their enemies into submission, and proclaims himself Calif\u2014the temporal and spiritual overlord of Islam.<\/p>\n
The so-called “last true Calif,” the deposed Sultan of Turkey, Mohammed VI, died recently in Italy (TIME, May 24).<\/p>\n
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