‘The Indian Caliphate’ Review: The Shadow in Twilight

The caliphate was abolished soon after the birth of modern Turkey. Some tried to keep it alive in the Indian princely state ...
Ancient Origins

Quseir 'Amra: The Desert Castle's Timeless Art

The Umayyad desert castles are often described as mere stopovers or hunting lodges, but Quseir ‘Amra is something far more profound. It is a physical manifestation of the imagination of Caliph ...
5Pillars

March 3rd 1924 — The abolition of the last caliphate

FacebookLikeShareTweetEmail Today marks 102 years since the destruction of the Ottoman Caliphate by Mustafa Kemal, heralding arguably the darkest chapter in Islamic history after the death of Rasūl ...
Reuters

As caliphate is declared, Iraqi troops battle for Tikrit

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi troops battled to dislodge an al Qaeda splinter group from the city of Tikrit on Monday after its leader was declared caliph of a new Islamic state in lands seized this month ...
Time

ISLAM: Caliph’s Beauteous Daughter

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 ...