Ottoman links to Medieval Calicut
Posted by Labels: Constantinople, Hadim Suleyman, Malabar - Portuguese, Ottoman Calicut, Turkey
Pre Khilafat Turkiye Malabar
Connections, ante 1919
Some years ago, I had touched on the connections between
Malabar and Turkey in relation to the Khilafat movement of the 1920’s and how
and why it all fizzled out, culminating with the terrible days of the 1921
uprising. But Ottoman Turkey did have a link with the muezzins of Calicut and the
clergy at Ponnani even before all that. I may have touched on the subject while
writing about the Fathul Mubeyin, but let’s now see how it all adds up.
