When Mustafa Kemal Ataturk abolished the Ottoman Caliphate in 1924, Muslim intellectuals, clerics, and scholars around the world entered into a frenzied discourse about the future of Islamic leadership and the relationship between Islam and the newly emerged nation state. Although the Ottoman ca..
Andrew McDonald
Andrew McDonald is an intern at the Arab Studies Institute who engages with issues of Islamic political theology and cultural identity; Andrew is also a Program Associate with Muslim American Leadership Alliance (MALA), where he works to help collect and curate oral histories of Muslims living in the U.S.