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Still, proclaiming a caliphate is one thing. Getting the world's Muslims to ... aboard the Orient Express." Islamic scholar Juan Cole, who offers a concise history of the caliphates, says the ...

The caliphate’s more recent history under the Ottomans shows why the institution ... use to articulate the idea of an elected and democratic leader for the Islamic world.) What’s more, the story of ...

A decade after the Islamic ... its caliphate in large parts of Iraq and Syria, the extremists no longer control any land, have lost many prominent leaders and are mostly out of the world news ...

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Thousands of protesters marched through Hamburg over the weekend calling for an Islamic state in Germany and clutching signs that declared, “Caliphate is the solution.” Videos of the Saturday ...

In June 1926, Ibn Saud (now King of Saudi Arabia) convened a "Congress of the Muslim World" in Mecca, but his intention was in no way to reopen the debate on the caliphate. His aim was to reassure ...

Going into the history of Islamic education in ... the contribution of the Muslim world to global knowledge. The Governor noted that the Sokoto Caliphate holds the distinction of being a leading ...

BAGHDAD — A decade after the Islamic ... caliphate in large parts of Iraq and Syria, the extremists no longer control any land, have lost many prominent leaders and are mostly out of the world ...