Al-Wagh Al-Akher Lil-Khilafah Al-Islamiyya (The Other Face of the Islamic Caliphate) by Sulaiman Fayyad, General Egyptian Book Organisation, Family Library Series, 2014, pp.234. Sulaiman Fayyad, who ...
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If there were an ex-Pope, if he had a beauteous daughter, if she became secretly engaged to the eldest son of “The Richest Man in the World,” then Catholics would be as excited as Moslems were last ...
On June 29, 2014—or the first of Ramadan, 1435, for those who prefer the Islamic calendar to the Gregorian—the leaders of the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS) publicly uttered for the first time ...
Based on a synthesis of decades of scholarship in numerous languages, The Caliph and the Imam: The Making of Sunnism and Shiism, is the first truly global and longue durée history of Sunni-Shii ...
Islamic Empires. By Justin Marozzi. Pegasus Books; 512 pages; $35. Allen Lane; £25. ISLAMIC CIVILISATION got off to a rocky start. Its first city, which lay in an arid Arabian desert, excluded ...
EVERY time a European city is shaken by an act of mass violence, the continent's heavy-weight newspapers host agonised debates over what has gone wrong. In particular, debaters often ask, should ...
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(MENAFN- The Conversation) Just days after thedeath of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadion Oct. 27, the Islamic State namedAbu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashias the new 'caliph.' In 2014,IS conquered vast swaths of ...