The History of the Caliphate
Question: Didn’t the Muslim caliphate or khilafah end in 1342 AH/1924 CE, when Turkey abolished the office? Didn’t the khilafah have a continuous existence up
Question: Didn’t the Muslim caliphate or khilafah end in 1342 AH/1924 CE, when Turkey abolished the office? Didn’t the khilafah have a continuous existence up
While it is clearly desirable for Muslims to apply the sharî‘ah or Islamic law as completely as possible, some provisions in the law require more
Dr Khalid Blankinship, an Islamic historian and professor at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pa, answers a question about the raids on the Meccan Caravans and
“Religion nationalized is religion submitted to the state. The state eats the religion; the religion does not eat the state. Thus the position of
We have a Masjid and School on the same property with Articles of Incorporation for both, Does our Masjid and School constitute an Islamic waqf
“…the Prophet’s polity was hardly an institutional, territorial state in the sense that we think of states today. The Qur’an, interestingly, never refers to the Muslim
Can we seriously consider the Ottoman Empire a ‘caliphate’? Does the “Aceh Sultanates “documented allegiance and consideration of the Ottoman Khalifate” constitute clear, historical proof
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