A beautifully animated tale from Iraq about a wicked sorcerer who turned the great Caliph of Baghdad into a stork. The sorcerer was following the orders of the Caliph’s jealous brother ...

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Where was the early Islamic civilisation? How did the early Islamic civilisation begin? Who was the caliph? Activity: Quiz – Introduction to early Islamic civilisation When was the early Islamic ...

The Ottoman Empire, whose ruler claimed to lead the Islamic world as caliph, adopted a series of new governing arrangements championed by internal reformers and pressed by Western debt-holders.

Queen Toda approached Córdoba’s great ruler, the caliph ’Abd al-Rahman III, with two bold requests: help with a cure for her grandson’s morbid obesity and military support to regain the throne.

The self-styled "Caliph Ibrahim" had a $25m (£19m) bounty on his head and had been pursued by the US and its allies since the rise of IS five years ago. At its peak, IS controlled 88,000 sq km ...

The Rise of the ‘Community With a Shared Future’: China’s Foreign Policy Hierarchy In an article titled “Why the New Caliphate is Irrelevant,” Akhilesh Pillalamarri of The Diplomat ...

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) says the Islamic State group's five-year "caliphate" is over after the militants' defeat in Syria. SDF fighters have been raising victory flags in ...

The last Sasanid shah died a fugitive in eastern Iran in 651. The caliphate was the governing institution established by Muhammad’s successors to rule the newly conquered empire. The capital of the ...

As the Islamic State loses territory, it has increasingly turned to Afghanistan as a base for its global caliphate.[9] Following IS-K’s official pledge of allegiance to the Islamic State’s global ...

He also assisted in the construction of a map of the world for his patron, the caliph Al-Ma’mun, and was part of a project to determine Earth’s circumference to its most accurate measure yet.