In this captivating journey through history, explore how the Umayyad Caliphate expanded its empire to achieve one of the ...

New discoveries are overturning long-held assumptions and revealing previously ignored complexities at the desert castle of Khirbet al-Mafjar The palace’s bathhouse boasts a carpet-like mosaic floor ...

This short tells a story about what would happen if the Umayyad Caliphate came back today? Saudi Arabia would be the country ...

On June 29, 2014, which coincided with the first day of Ramadan, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) declared the restoration of the caliphate. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, a shadowy figure with a $10 ...

They have never constituted more than a small percentage of the Muslim population. but they are important in the history of the caliphate because they developed theories of the office, how the caliph ...

AMMAN — Desert castles were built as a combination of military outposts and retreats for the ruling elites of the Umayyad Dynasty (661 AD - 750 AD). The main power base for the dynasty was in the ...

Two weeks ago Glenn Beck introduced much of the world to the word caliphate. Shortly after the Egypt uprisings began, Beck used two chalkboards to 'explain' what was happening there and went on to ...

A careful study of the first caliphate (632-661 C.E.) demonstrates that the ISIS caliphate launched by Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi in Iraq is a non-starter. A viable Islamic caliphate would most certainly ...

Since the sectarian war exploded in Iraq after the bombing of the Shiite shrine at Samarra in February 2006, it has become commonplace to hear about a Sunni-Shiite collision in the Muslim world. Does ...