Abdul Majeed II:
Last Ottoman Caliph, Crown Prince, nominal ruler:
Birth:
May 30, 1868 (Istanbul).
Died August 23, 1944 (Paris).
When Abdul Majeed Affandi's fourth cousin ascended the throne in the name of Muhammad VI in 1918, Abdul Majeed became the Crown Prince. After the overthrow of Muhammad VI on November 1, 1922, there was no Sultan in Turkey. Therefore, on November 18, the National Assembly recognized Abdul Majeed Affandi as the Caliph of the Muslims and elected him. Because he was not a king or a sultan, he was not given the status of Amir al-mu'minin.
On November 19, 1922, Abdul Majeed received a telegram from Mustafa Kemal Pasha informing him that he had been elected caliph. Therefore, on 24th November, he was officially made the caliph in a ceremony held at Topkapi Sarai. Abdul Majeed was 54 years old when he became caliph. He was a professional painter and musician. It kept alive the Islamic traditions of the Turkish past.
On October 2, 1923, the occupation of Istanbul by foreign forces ended and the Turkish National Army took control of it. On October 29, 1923, Mustafa Kemal Pasha founded modern Turkey, declared Turkey a republic, and was elected president himself.
On March 3, 1924, the Grand National Assembly abolished the Ottoman Caliphate permanently under Assembly Law No. 341, thus ending the last minor relationship of the new Republic of Turkey with the Ottoman Empire. Under the same law, Abdul Majeed's status as caliph was abolished and he and his family and royal relatives were ordered to leave Turkey immediately.
On March 3, 1924, Abdul Majeed was deported. He first lived in Switzerland for a while and then moved to Venice, where he stayed until World War II, then moved to Paris, where he died of a heart attack on August 23, 1944. He died in anonymity. Allies allowed his burial in Medina. Where he was revered as the last Ottoman caliph.
After the death of Abdul Majeed, the title of head of the Ottoman dynasty went to Ahmad Nihad, grandson of Sultan Murad V. When he died in 1954, the title was given to Usman Fawad, another grandson of Murad V.
After his death in 1973, he met Muhammad Abdul Aziz, the grandson of Sultan Abdul Aziz.
He died in 1977. Ali Wasib, the great-grandson of Murad V, became the head of the Ottoman family.
After his death in 1984, Muhammad Arkhan, the grandson of Sultan Abdul Hamid II, and on his death in 1994, another grandson of Abdul Majeed II, Usman Ertugrul V, received the title of chief.
Ertugrul Usman became the 43rd head of the Ottoman dynasty on March 12, 1994. He died in Istanbul in 2009. Instead, Usman Bayazid III, the grandson of Sultan Abdul Majeed I, was elected head of the Ottoman dynasty. He was born in 1924 in Paris. His father's name was Prince Ibrahim Tawfiq.
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