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 ...

It’s a small piece of paper, nearly 100 years old, inked in red and black Arabic script on thick wheat paper. To the side and at the bottom it is adorned with the names of some of the notables of the ...

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 ...

With a massive invasion by U.S. ground troops ruled out — for now — the debate in Washington over what to do about Islamic State militants has shifted into the realm of diplomacy and “soft power.” ...

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 ...

Books on pan-Islam, Ottoman decline, Hyderabad, and the Khilafat movement generally arrive with a ready-made emotional advantage. The subject itself carries such enormous historical residue that even ...