The Caliphate Capture Chain: A Ba'alist Taxonomy of Islamic Succession, 632-1924

SCRA Civilizational Studies Series No. 2. A systematic taxonomy of five Ba'alist Capture types sequentially appropriating the institutional structure of Islamic political authority between 632 CE and the abolition of the Ottoman caliphate in 1924 CE. Type I Procedural Capture (Saqifa 632); Type II Hereditary Capture (Umayyad 661-750); Type III Revolutionary Capture (Abbasid 750); Type IV Colonial-Theological Capture (British-Wahhabi alliance 1744-1917); Type V Juridical-Secular Capture (modern state 1924-present). Chain logic: each Capture type creates structural conditions enabling the next -- Saqifa -> hereditary logic -> Abbasid -> foreign sponsorship normalization -> Wahhabi theological normalization -> secular nationalist replacement.