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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 ...
A careful study of the first caliphate (632-661 C.E.) demonstrates that the ISIS caliphate launched by Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi in Iraq is a non-starter. A viable Islamic caliphate would most certainly ...
Al-Wagh Al-Akher Lil-Khilafah Al-Islamiyya (The Other Face of the Islamic Caliphate) by Sulaiman Fayyad, General Egyptian Book Organisation, Family Library Series, 2014, pp.234. Sulaiman Fayyad, who ...
KARACHI: Spanish scholars in the last 30 years have focused on politics, society, and culture of the Umayyad dynasty, especially the Umayyad Caliphate of Cordoba, of the 10th century. Cordoba, once ...
On June 29, 2014, which coincided with the first day of Ramadan, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) declared the restoration of the caliphate. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, a shadowy figure with a $10 ...
Militias fighting alongside the Syrian regime of President Bashar Al-Assad destroyed and desecrated the grave of the eighth Umayyad Caliph Umar Ibn Abdul Aziz yesterday, located in the north-west ...
They have never constituted more than a small percentage of the Muslim population. but they are important in the history of the caliphate because they developed theories of the office, how the caliph ...
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