Kurtuluş Savaşı'nda Sebilürreşad, Hilafet ve İslam siyasi düşüncesi, 1918-1923

This study focuses on the role of Sebilürreşad in the War of Independ-ence, in general terms. Accordingly, this study unearths the politico-intellectual network around Sebilürreşad, and sheds light on how and through which connections they were involved in the national re-sistance movement and their cooperation with the Ankara Govern-ment. Moreover, this study concentrates on the articles and sermons, trying to understand how the politico-intellectual circle of the journal reconceptualized the caliphate in what contexts. This study argues that Sebilürreşad was an integral part of the broad coalition formed around the Grand National Assembly, and claims that the activities of the jour-nal's politico-intellectual circle in the War of Independence extended the boundaries of the "spiritual sovereignty" of the Ankara Govern-ment. In addition, this study reveals that, under the influence of the global upheaval that took place after the First World War, Sebilür-reşad's intellectuals defended the alliance with the Bolsheviks and re-conceptualized the caliphate in the context of the awakening of the East. Thus, this study both invites a more nuanced and multidimen-sional understanding of the developments after the First World War and it sheds light on the limits of the idea of caliphate-centered Pan-Islam in the War of Independence.