AHC/WI: Indonesian Caliphate

I don't think anyone has done it so...

Since the lands of Indonesia are majority-Muslim, would it be possible to create an Indonesian-based Caliphate?

Perhaps, one of the Sultans in either Sumatra or Java have somehow managed to create an Caliphate/Empire by skill and luck.

Or a wide-scale Muslim rebellion which has successfully overthrow the Dutch East Indies colonial administration and their native allies, and then united into the Caliphate on basis of common faith?
 
By Early Modern times, “caliph” no longer meant “sole head of the Islamic community” but was simply a prestigious title meaning something like “powerful Muslim ruler.” Similar to how “emir” lost much of its originally military connotation and how “emperor” became increasingly dissociated with the Roman concept of imperium. The changes in the concept of the caliph were exacerbated by Sufi leaders often being called khilafah, either in the sense of being successors of the tariqah or in the sense of being a viceregent of God in the Ibn Arabi sense.

With that in mind, there were many Muslim rulers in Southeast Asia who took titles like “Caliph of God.” So this is OTL.
 
By Early Modern times, “caliph” no longer meant “sole head of the Islamic community” but was simply a prestigious title meaning something like “powerful Muslim ruler.” Similar to how “emir” lost much of its originally military connotation and how “emperor” became increasingly dissociated with the Roman concept of imperium. The changes in the concept of the caliph were exacerbated by Sufi leaders often being called khilafah, either in the sense of being successors of the tariqah or in the sense of being a viceregent of God in the Ibn Arabi sense.

With that in mind, there were many Muslim rulers in Southeast Asia who took titles like “Caliph of God.” So this is OTL.
Still, "caliph" can be the title as leader of the country, like every titles. With much said, perhaps a shrewd ruler can outdo the others and claimed as sole ruler of Nusantara, trying to emulate the old empire, the likes of Majapahit and successor of the Malaccan Sultanate.
 
Still, "caliph" can be the title as leader of the country, like every titles.
What do you mean? "Caliph" was one of the titles of many Southeast Asian rulers.

With much said, perhaps a shrewd ruler can outdo the others and claimed as sole ruler of Nusantara, trying to emulate the old empire, the likes of Majapahit and successor of the Malaccan Sultanate.
Like Mataram? Also, "Nusantara" was a term not widely used in Islamic Southeast Asia.
 
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