 Nyorai mberi kweiyi ndima - Munguva yekutonga kwaSultan Abdulhamid II, Pan-Islamism yakanga yave chikamu chakakosha chedzidziso yenyika sezvo Abdulhamid aigara achisimbisa zvaaiti ndiye Caliph. Kutaura kwokuti Abdulhamid ndiye aiva mutungamiriri, achimuita mutungamiri wezvematongerwe enyika uye womudzimu wevaMuslim vose kwete chete muUmambo hweOttoman, asi muDar-al-Islam yose Imba yeIslam, kureva nyika yeIslam, zvikurukuru muIndia yaidzorwa neBritain. Pasinei nokubvisa Abdulhamid muna 1909, CUP yakapfuurira nemitemo yayo yepan-Islam. Nokuda kweCUP, kuchengeta Sultanate-caliphate iripo kwakanga kusina bedzi mugumisiro wokusimbisa kuvimbika kwevaMuslim veOttoman kuumambo, asi kwakanga kuriwo chishandiso chinobatsira chemitemo yokunze. Idi rokuti vaMuslim veIndia vairatidzika kuva vanodisa zvikuru nokuda kwaSultan-caliph weOttoman kupfuura zvavaiita nokuda kwamambo-mambo weBritain yakanga iri nhau yokunetseka kukuru nokuda kwavanoita zvisarudzo veBritain. Kutya kuti Sultan-caliph aigona kuzivisa jihad pamusoro pevaBritish, uye nokudaro kunyudza India mukupandukira nevaMuslim vayo yakanga iri chinhu chenguva dzose mumutemo weBritish kune Umambo hweOttoman. CUP yakatsigira nhaka yaAbdulhamid parufu rwake muna February 1918, kunyange zvazvo CUP yakatanga chimurengamukurwisa Abdulhamid muna 1908 uye pakupedzisira akamubvisa pachigaro muna 1909. Şükrü Hanioğlu anotaura kuti CUP kazhinji yaizokumbira kuIslam nokungoti pose pazvaiva zvakakodzera. 