The academic literature confirming the pan-Islamic turn and the adoption of a caliphal policy by the Ottoman government during the 19th century and especially under the rule of Abdülhamid II is established. State-sponsored propaganda attempts to consolidate such a policy through the literary production of the ʿulamāʾ have also received scholarly attention. The aim of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of this topic by focusing on the ideas on the Caliphate of a neglected voice of the Nahḍah, the native-born Egyptian journalist and poet Ḥassan Ḥusnī al-Ṭuwayrānī (1850-1897). While considering the whole literary activity of this Ottoman journalist, this paper focuses on his ideas on the Caliphate by providing an analysis of his paper titled Maqālah fī Iǧmāl al-Kalām ʿalā Masʾalat al-H̱ilāfah bayna Ahl al-Islām, published in 1891 and written as a reaction to the spread in Egypt of the Arabic translation of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt's (1840-1922) The Future of Islam. Building on a comparison between the two works, the paper highlights al-Ṭuwayrānī's distinguishing conception of the prophetic mission of Muḥammad and of the function of the Prophet's successor, or Caliph.