MATERIALS FOR THE STUDY OF THE WORK AND THOUGHT
OF ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE
by Teodoro Tagliaferri (University of Naples Federico II)
No. 24 (August 28th, 2023)
WRITINGS ON THE EMPIRES IN WORLD HISTORY, XX
Arnold J. Toynbee, The New Turkey. Patriarchs and Grand Rabbi To Go. The Logical Sequel to Khalifate Decision, in «The Manchester Guardian», Friday, March 14, 1924, p. 16.
See also https://www.academia.edu/63203811/Arnold_J_Toynbee_The_New_Turkey_The_Logical_Sequel_to_Khalifate_Decision
“The reported abolition of the Greek and Armenian Patriarchates and the Grand Rabbinate of Turkey is doubtless due to the same conscious policy on the part of the Turkish Government which has already led to the repudiation of the Khalifate. In any case, the liquidation of the Khalifate and of these institutions representing other religions is logically all of a piece, for all the this institutions stand for an ancient system of society which is built up on bases so entirely different from those familiar to us in the West that it is hardly possible for any Eastern nation to retain them when once it has set out systematically to reorganise its life on Western lines.”
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