Habib University in collaboration with the UK’s University of Exeter organised a webinar on ‘The Khilafat Movement — Islam, India and the First World War’ in which eminent historian Prof Faisal Devji was the main speaker.
Prof Devji, who was introduced to the audience by Dr Nauman Naqvi, giving a historical description of the movement, said it began in the aftermath of the First World War in which the Ottoman Empire was defeated along with Germany.