Islands of the Caliph is an old-school RPG with grid based movement set in a fictional island civilization. Thematically it draws on Middle Eastern folklore and religion, offering a lore-rich ...

It’s been 100 years since the world had a formally recognized caliphate, a disappearance that’s left a deep imprint on 20th-century politics.

The first caliph, Selim I (1470-1520), who assumed power in 1512; and the last caliph Abdulmecid II (1868-1944), who was deposed in 1924 (Creative Commons) ...

Expenses of the Caliph’s huge villa (a palace in size and ornate furnishings) are paid voluntarily by Islam’s rich & pious, notably by His Exalted Highness the Nizam of Hyderabad, richest ...

Video summary. A beautifully animated tale from Iraq about a wicked sorcerer who turned the great Caliph of Baghdad into a stork. The sorcerer was following the orders of the Caliph’s jealous ...

The fiction of the Ottoman caliphate. In 1517, Sultan Selim I brought the Caliph Al-Mutawakkil III, a distant descendant of the Abbasids who were expelled from Baghdad in 1258, from Cairo to Istanbul.

Al-Hashimi is the group's fifth "caliph" since Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in a U.S. raid in October 2019. With five caliphs in less than four years, the Islamic State makes governments in the ...

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 ...

“American Caliph,” by Shahan Mufti, recounts the complex story of a largely forgotten episode from 1977, when an armed Muslim group held dozens of people hostage.