Monday, April 27, 2009

Tuesday, April 27, 1909. Fall of the Sultan.



Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II was deposed by unanimous vote of the Turkish parliament, after a fatwa was approved by Sheik ul Islam.  A fatwa was necessary as he was the Caliph and, therefore, both a civil and a religious figure.

Rechad Effendi, the Sultan's brother, a prisoner of the deposed monarch since 1876, was invited to be the new Sultan, which he became as Sultan Mehmed V.

It was quite a promotion, at least for the time being.


And folks were photographing Arizona.

University of Arizona, April 27, 1909.

Tuscon, Arizona.

Tombstone Arizona.

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