The Hagia Sophia is at the centre of Turkey's Byzantine, Ottoman and secular history. How did the sixth-century cathedral ...

How did Muhammad Ali Jinnah go from being a secular young man appalled by Indian interference in the Ottoman Caliphate crisis ...

Iraq was once the center of the Abbasid Caliphate and a hub of knowledge until the 15th century. It flourished in trade, ...

Readers may be surprised to learn, for example, that the last Ottoman Caliph, who was expelled from Turkey in 1924, had received the warmest farewell from an Ottoman Jew. It is a story related in ...

Over the next few years, strong ties developed between Ottoman royals and wealthy potentates ... financially supported the exiled last caliph, Abdulmecid II, who lived on the French Riviera.

Politically, King Fouad seemed to be inheriting the status of the head of the biggest Sunni state in the region after the Ottoman caliphate, which made him side with Al-Azhar. Since the 1960s ...

How did Muhammad Ali Jinnah go from being a secular young man appalled by Indian interference in the Ottoman Caliphate crisis to the moving spirit behind the demand for Pakistan – a new Islamic ...

If history is destined to be revisited, the young might be best placed to do so. “Our idea of undivided India is basically ...

For a small country, Kosovo sent a lot of citizens to the caliphate. The survivors came back to prison, reintegration ...

The winds of March are roaring and everywhere you look peace is in the air, or at least that's the impression you might get ...