Abdulmejid II (21st Century Crisis)

Abdulmejid II (Ottoman Turkish: عبد المجید الثانی, Abd al-Madjeed al-Thâni, Modern Turkish: Halife İkinci Abdülmecit Efendi, 29 May 1868 – 23 August 1945) was the last Caliph of the defunct Ottoman Dynasty, the 37th Head of the Ottoman Imperial House from 1922 to 1924.

He rose to power as the Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey in 1931, and later the Yüce in 1933, akin to Führer Adolf Hitler and Duce Benito Mussolini.

Abdulmejid II shared many goals as his German counterpart - espousing radical Turkish nationalism and a desire to reconquer the territories that belonged to a preceding empire (in this case, the Ottoman Empire). Abdulmejid II's vision was to establish the "Great Imparatorluk", or the "Great Turkish Empire" with Abdulmejid II.

Although originally a neo-Ottomanist, Abdulmejid II was not looking to revive the Ottoman Empire proper, but create a Turkish Empire based on it. As such, Abdulmejid II did not proclaim himself the "sultan", but the "Yüce" or the "Exalted One".

In addition, while Abdulmejid II was a Muslim, Islam was not promoted, and the sultanate system was not put into place. Little mention of Islam was ever made during Abdulmejid II's reign.