The Ottoman Caliphate was a Sunni Islamic caliphate in the late 1500s.
"Ottoman Caliphate"Selim I, the 9th Sultan, the 1st caliph and maiden title holder of "Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques" of the Ottoman Empire
==== Parallel regional caliphates to the Ottomans ========= Indian subcontinent =====After the Umayyad campaigns in India and the conquest on small territories of the western part of the Indian peninsula, early Indian Muslim dynasties were founded by the Ghurid dynasty and the Ghaznavids, most notably the Delhi Sultanate

