They demand khilafat or a caliphate to replace Bangladesh’s flawed democracy. They also want the Islamic rule and Sharia to extend to the neighbourhood, especially India, and the rest of the world.

Two years later, he would abolish the Fatimid Caliphate and, at the head of the new Ayyubid dynasty, become the governor of Egypt. “This was one of the most exciting moments in Saladin’s life,” says ...

THE vote by which the Angora Parliament abolished the Caliphate may furnish a historic date of outstanding interest. From the death of the Prophet in 632 to the present day, Islam has never been ...