In a recent article dedicated to the Ninth Crusade, we explained that the English prince and future king Edward I landed in ...

The story of Saladin has been told many times. One of the most influential portraits of the 12th-century Ayyubid sultan appeared in a work of fiction, Sir Walter Scott’s The Talisman (1825). In that ...

All of this was aimed at establishing a Caliphate system in India. To further their conspiracy, they collected weapons, explosive substances, and even conducted a trial blast. The primary ...

Ottomans saw themselves as inheritors of the Caliphate. Safavids were drawn to Sufi masters and Shia ways of being. Mughals called themselves Badshah (world-emperor) and Shahenshah (king of kings) ...

Muslims from all over the world denounced this Saudi savagery and exhorted the Caliphate of the Ottoman Empire to save the sacred shrines from total destruction. Then, as it is known, Muhammad Ali ...

His policies included abolishing the caliphate in 1924, adopting the Latin alphabet in 1928, granting women voting rights in 1934, and implementing a strict separation of religion and state. Mustafa ...

“Hamas is the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. They want to impose extreme Islamist rule and establish a caliphate, not over this or that piece of land, but over the entire Middle ...

Ideological enemies of the caliphate were executed by beheading or being burned alive. But while the violence mobilised global opposition to what the then-US president, Barack Obama, called IS’s ...

Days later, an outlawed group held a large march demanding an Islamic caliphate. As Bangladesh tries to rebuild its democracy and chart a new future for its 175 million people, a streak of ...

Shortly afterward, the head of the CSU, Markus Söder, wrote on X: "Anyone calling for a caliphate must be stripped of dual citizenship!" The current draft proposal clearly bears the CDU/CSU ...

Frederick Lugard, the British high commissioner of northern Nigeria from 1900 to 1906, is known as “the father of indirect rule” for implementing the system in the lands once controlled by the Sokoto ...

It is located in the Old City of Jerusalem and is the third holiest site in Islam. The mosque was built in the early 8th century by the Umayyad Caliphate. According to Islamic belief, Prophet Muhammad ...