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 ...

If there were an ex-Pope, if he had a beauteous daughter, if she became secretly engaged to the eldest son of “The Richest Man in the World,” then Catholics would be as excited as Moslems were last ...

Popular historian Bobrick (The Fated Sky: Astrology in History) breathlessly recounts the ornate pageantry of the Islamic caliphate, from its meteoric rise as an empire on three continents, with ...

Ken Chitwood does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Caliph is a title given to the supreme religious and political leaders of an Islamic state, or Caliphate. It is also the title for the ruler of the Islamic Ummah, the political successors to Prophet ...

On June 29, 2014—or the first of Ramadan, 1435, for those who prefer the Islamic calendar to the Gregorian—the leaders of the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS) publicly uttered for the first time ...

Islamic Empires. By Justin Marozzi. Pegasus Books; 512 pages; $35. Allen Lane; £25. ISLAMIC CIVILISATION got off to a rocky start. Its first city, which lay in an arid Arabian desert, excluded ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Just days after thedeath of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadion Oct. 27, the Islamic State namedAbu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashias the new 'caliph.' In 2014,IS conquered vast swaths of ...