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Grand Muti Al Husayni Becomes Caliph

Al Husayni is able to rally support and gets himself made Caliph. What are the immediate and long term results of this? Palestinian Revolt? World War II? Israel? Decolonization? Modern Day?
The Congress was called at the behest of Mohammad Amin al-Husayni, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, and Maulana Shaukat Ali, leader of the Indian Caliphate Committee. Ostensibly the Congress was called to consider a proposal to establish a University at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem as a centre of Islamic scholarship, an idea which the leaders of the prestigious Al-Azhar University in Cairo opposed.

However, the Congress was viewed widely as an attempt by the mufti to enhance his prestige in advance of a bid for the office of caliph. This position had remained vacant since a Pan-Islamic Congress in Mecca in 1926 had failed to agree on a suitable candidate to replace King Hussein of Hejaz. A rival clan of the Husaynis, the Nashashibis, helped to ensure that the mufti was unsuccessful in his bid for the caliphate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Islamic_Congress
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