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 ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Islands of the Caliph Islands of the Caliph is an old-school RPG with grid based movement set in a fictional island civilization. Thematically it draws ...

A centennial took place this week with little commemoration. It’s been 100 years since the world had a formally recognized caliphate. That’s because, on March 3, 1924, the leaders of the then ...

In a sun-drenched Riviera villa, high above champagne-soused Nice, lives the ex-Caliph of Islam who has no successor. Deposed and physically ousted from Turkey in 1924 by agnostic President ...

A century ago, the fledgling state of Turkey sent the last caliph Abdulmecid II into exile and consigned an Islamic institution to history The first caliph, Selim I (1470-1520), who assumed power ...

OZAN KOSE / AFP On March 3, 1924, the Turkish Parliament voted to abolish the caliphate, of which Abdülmecid II (1868-1944) was the 101 st caliph. It was the end of a myth: that of the Ottoman ...

Islands of the Caliph is an open-world grid-based CRPG developed by Schmidt Workshops. Based on Middle Eastern folklore and Islamic spiritual tradition, players will combat enemies and seek ...

It used the occasion to acknowledge its new caliph, little-known Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi. Al-Hashimi is the group's fifth "caliph" since Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in a U.S. raid in ...

A report issued this week by the United Nations Sanctions Monitoring Team, based on U.N. member state intelligence, said there is “growing confidence” that the IS caliph is Abdul Qadir Mumin ...

On many occasions, words such as sheikh, emir and caliph are used. Both in history and in popular culture, the use of these terms has been varied, but few really know the meaning, something that ...