After an absence of 90 years, the ancient institution of the caliphate roared back into existence on the first day of Ramadan in the year 1435 of the Hegira, equivalent to June 29, 2014.

The U.S. data comes from Pew Research Center’s 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study, which surveyed 36,908 adults.Because of this large sample size, we are able to analyze and report results for ...

TEHRAN, Iran — 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 ...

ISLAM: Caliph’s Beauteous Daughter. 3 minute read. TIME. November 9, 1931 12:00 AM GMT-5. I f there were an ex-Pope, if he had a beauteous daughter, if she became secretly engaged to the eldest ...

Isis fighters in Iraq have declared themselves masters of a new caliphate. But their vision of a medieval-style religious state is based on false view of early Islamic history, according to experts.