Islam is the second-largest religion in the world. It has more than 900 million adherents all over the globe, but, at present, has no recognized caliph. The word "caliph" means "successor" and "deputy ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian authorities on Thursday arrested four staff members of state TV, accusing them of insulting the first caliph of Sunni Muslims and close ally of the Prophet Muhammad, state ...

Young King Farouk of Egypt was today acclaimed as Caliph of Islam during a ceremony attended by some of the highest dignitaries of the Moslem world. Attending the ceremony at which Farouk was thus ...

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 ...