This short tells a story about what would happen if the Umayyad Caliphate came back today? Saudi Arabia would be the country that would try to bring them back, and would start with Oman and Yemen, ...

The Umayyad Caliphate grew into one of the largest empires on Earth, but its rapid expansion created internal cracks it couldn’t control. Many people under Umayyad rule resented the dynasty’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

KARACHI: A lecture about ‘The Umayyad Caliphate that was Cordoba’ by a leading historian from Spain, Dr Eduardo Manzano Moreno, organised by the Mohatta Palace Museum and Endowment Fund Trust for ...

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 ...

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 ...