Discover the vast expanse of the Umayyad Caliphate in this captivating journey through history. Learn how this powerful empire stretched from the edges of the Atlantic Ocean to the heart of Asia. This ...

The history of the caliphate of the Orthodox period raised almost all the main issues about powers and personalities which have dominated the discussions of the nature and potential of the office ever ...

Al-Baghdadi can keep touting himself as the new caliph, but most Muslims know enough history to recognize him for what he is - a murderous tyrant using religion as to acquire rank political power. So ...

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After the prophet Mohammed died in 632, the Islamic community chose a caliph to lead the faithful. That institution lasted almost 1,300 years until it was abolished in 1924. Since that time, no ...

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 ...

This event has been treated as a major milestone by the media and many in the West, as well as some alarmist figures in Iraq. This is because of the enormous, romanticized emphasis both Islamist and ...

The Emir of Zazzau, Ahmed Bamalli, has praised the Nigerian edition of The Sokoto Caliphate authored by Murray Last and published by Premium Times Books, saying the book helps correct some errors by ...

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 ...