PLATTSBURGH — When the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham proclaimed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to be caliph of all Muslims and the prince of believers, it recalled early Islam for some Muslims. Caliph, in ...
Two weeks ago Glenn Beck introduced much of the world to the word caliphate. Shortly after the Egypt uprisings began, Beck used two chalkboards to 'explain' what was happening there and went on to ...
WASHINGTON — When the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria announced last Sunday that it was changing its name and reviving the caliphate, the news lit up the Internet and headlined news reports around the ...
Kennedy (The Great Arab Conquests), a medieval historian and professor of Arabic at SOAS, University of London, follows the threads of the centuries-long debate within the wider Islamic community over ...
The Islamic caliphates had a long and glorious run, but in the 21st century, they seemed consigned to history. Simply put, a caliphate is an Islamic state led by a supreme religious and political ...
AL QAEDA’S STATED GOAL–to reestablish the caliphate, the political leadership of worldwide Islam embodied first in the successors of the Prophet Muhammad and most recently in the four-century rule of ...
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