Of the first four caliphs, the rulers of the faith after Muhammad, three were murdered. (There has been a persistent suspicion that Abu Bakr, the first caliph, elected immediately after the ...

A month after the founding of the so-called Caliphate in Iraq and Syria, it’s richer, better armed, more durable—and dangerous—than ever before.

Supporters of the Islamic State march in Mosul, Iraq, in 2014, the year the militant group declared a new caliphate in Iraq and Syria. (Associated Press) Shadi Hamid is a senior fellow in the ...

The Almohad state provided them with the resources for shipbuilding and naval combat training, which further increases the likelihood of the accuracy of the first narrative—that Sultan Yaqub al ...

Since the Moslem hierarchy of Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Transjordan, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Yemen, India and Egypt must first decide on the choice of a Caliph, to cheers were premature but it was ...

Self-proclaimed caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi made an unprecedented appearance in the Iraqi city of Mosul, which his forces helped capture last month, and ordered Muslims to obey him, according to a ...

Isis fighters in Iraq have declared themselves masters of a new caliphate. But their vision of a medieval-style religious state is based on false view of early Islamic history, according to experts.

As the Ottoman Empire collapsed, the first president of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, undertook reforms and abolished the caliphate, effectively leaving the political lineage of the prophet ...