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 in ...

An elegant meditation on a forgotten transnational world, The Indian Caliphate by Imran Mulla presents the notion that ...

Abdulhamid II is one of the most controversial and divisive figures in modern Turkish history. His detractors call him the "kizil sultan" (the red sultan) after the blood they hold him responsible 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 ...

ORHAN OSMANOGLU cradles a French handkerchief embossed with the letter H. “This is all I have left that’s my great-great-grandfather’s, the caliph’s,” he says. His family has fallen far since those ...

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This series of commentaries, Unviability of Islamic Caliphate, will explain that Islamic caliphate in any form, much less in image of the fetishized first caliphate (632-661 C.E.), is an utter ...

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 11, ARMENPRESS. American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist and historian Noam Chomsky has commented on the recent military aggression unleashed by Azerbaijan with the support ...

India-Pakistan tensions: China and Turkey were the only two countries who openly supported Pakistan in its recent conflict with India, even as the rest of the world, including other Muslim powers such ...