Part IV: The West's universalist pretensions increasingly bring it into conflict with other civilizations, most seriously with Islam and China; at the local level fault line wars, largely between Muslims and non-Muslims, generate "kin-country rallying," the threat of broader escalation, and ...
Noun1.Caliphate- the era of Islam's ascendancy from the death of Mohammed until the 13th century; some Moslems still maintain that the Moslem world must always have a calif as head of the community; "their goal was to reestablish the Caliphate" ...
What King Abdullah of Jordan said is essentially the war against ISIS is a war for the soul of Islam. And it must be Muslim troops on the ground that will destroy ISIS, with the support of a coalition of major powers - U.S., U.K., France, Germany and Russia. — Hillary Clinton 1...
The conquest of most of Central Asia and northwestern India by Mahmud of Ghazni in the eleventh century played a major role in bringing Islam to South Asia. The Islamic influence exerted by the Ghaznavids and their successors had a notable effect on the clothing of South Asia. There was an...
Insight into the genomic history of the Near East from whole-genome sequences and genotypes of Yemenis. Preprint at bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/749341 (2019). Hawting, G. R. The First Dynasty of Islam: The Umayyad Caliphate AD 661-750 (Routledge, 2001). Shboul, A. & Walmsley, ...
First of all, it is important to remember that the Quranic corpus was elaborated in the atmosphere of the civil wars that marked the birth and the first developments of Islam. These wars seem to have played a major role in the elaboration of the official version of the Quran, which the ...
Isam al-Jawlani overrated the islands in the 10th century and started Islamization. After this, several crises took place. The annexation to the Caliphate of Córdoba [1,2,3]; the incorporation in 1014 into the Taifa of Denia [1,2,3,4]; several Crusader expeditions (1107–1108; 1113–...
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about mankind’s status as God’s vicegerent—or caliph—on earth. That reformulation involved not only reducing rulers to their proper status as agents of the people but also implicitly raising the people to the ultimate arbiters of God’s law. My claim is that if Islamism as a political...
As Iraqi and coalition forces invade Mosul, the last ISIS stronghold in Iraq, the grim details of the extremist group’s rule come to light.