But there is little™doubt that. if) there could be "a genuine world-congress of the doctors and divines. fof Islam, the vote would.go in favour of Hussein.. Four hundredi|- years ago the Turkish "Sultan Selim overran Egypt and seized the "Khalifate from the supine hands of tie "then holder at Cairo, For 300 years the Khalif had dwelt at Cairo and had been entirely powerless. The Mameluke princes ruled Beypt; the Khalifs were spiritual chiefs only, like Roman pontffs shorn of the temporal power. Selim" made a "deal" with the poor " Khalif, who. indeed was helpless in. his hands, and" took" over form him not only the title ut the "sacred relies" of Istam—Che Pro phot's mantle, some hairs from his beard and the sword of Omar, the great Khalif who was a close sic fessor of Mohammed, Then Selim took to himacif the ties of King of Kings and Lord of Lords, Mon march of the Two Seas, (the Mediterranean and the Red Sea), Protec for of the Two Lands (the holy ands of Hedjaz and. Syria), 8 censor of the Apostle of God, Prince of the Faithfal and Emperor.
The Moslem jorists who declared that Selim was the true Khalif gave five, reasons for their legal. "opinion." They said that he had made good his power by the sword and tone could take it from birny that hho had been declared duly elected by a congress of Turkish and Egyptian Ulema; that the Khalif in Cairo had made over the title to. him that he was the guardian of the sacred cities of Islam; and that he held the relics.
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