During the era of the Rightly Guided Caliphs, Ramadan was not merely a month of fasting; it was a season during which faith was renewed, and the values of asceticism, justice, and unity were deeply ...

From the early seventh century, the question of succession became the thorniest, most divisive and indeed the bloodiest issue in Islamic history. Of the first four caliphs, the rulers of the faith ...

SINCE Turkey has become a republic and the Caliph has been deprived in it of all political power, the Mohammedan world, with its two hundred million believers spread all over our globe, is passing ...

Earlier this month, ISIS announced that its leader, Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurayshi, had died fighting a rival terrorist group in Eastern Syria. It used the occasion to acknowledge its new ...

The Royal Tent at New Orleans Country Club was the scene Saturday when the Caliphs of Cairo recalled the 1921 Cairo Conference, which sought to settle disputes from the “Arab Revolt” during the First ...

It’s a small piece of paper, nearly 100 years old, inked in red and black Arabic script on thick wheat paper. To the side and at the bottom it is adorned with the names of some of the notables of the ...

Despite losing its leaders as a result of U.S. Special Forces “decapitation” strikes over the past three years, the Islamic State nevertheless has markedly bolstered its ideological appeal in the ...