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The Harameyin, the Caliphate, and the British Search for an Arab Caliph

2001
Abstract After 1880 the Hicaz became crucial, both practically and symbolically, to Sultan Abdulhamid’s policy of integrating the Ottoman Muslims into a cohesive community and expanding his religious influence overseas. As the holy sites for the annual Muslim pilgrimage, Mecca and Medina (nineteenth-century neo-Sufism made the latter ...
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The Umayyad Caliphate of Cordova

1970
When ‘Abd-al-Raḥmān III succeeded his grandfather, ‘Abdullāh, in 912, he was barely twenty-three years of age. ‘Abdullāh had instigated one of his own sons to kill the other, ‘Abd-al-Raḥmān’s father, Muḥammad, on a mere suspicion of disloyalty.1 Later he connived at the murder of his other son, the fratricide, leaving himself childless.
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Caliphs, Counter-Caliphs, and Counteifeit Caliphs: Hishām and ‘Abd Allāh on Taifa Coins

1993
Abstract The political changes of the period between the overthrow of the Mansūrids, in 399/1009, and the Almoravid intervention in al-Andalus, nearly a century later, are reflected in the coinages of the peninsula, at least so far as such coinages actually existed and have survived. Perhaps the most significant change, if only on the
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The digital Caliphate

2016
Innerhalb eines relativen kurzen Zeitraums von wenigen Monaten hat es die terroristische Gruppierung DAESH geschafft ihre Präsenz im Nahen Osten zu festigen. Durch effektive Propaganda wurde ein Radikalisierungsprozess eingeläutet, mithilfe dessen internationale Kämpfer für einen Jihad rekrutiert werden konnten, um ein islamistisches Kalifat auf den ...
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Caliph

2021
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2. The Caliph

2013
Despite the universal consensus on al-Muqtadir as a failed caliph, two views, the private and the public one, remain divergent to this day. This chapter looks at how caliph al-Muqtadir and his times were seen by different types of sources over time, focusing on how information available to all authors is selected and used to form specific portrayals ...
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