The Ottoman caliphate, whose nature was reinterpreted multiple times throughout the empire's history, was to survive for 412 years, from 1512 until 1924. Who was the last caliph?

The fiction of the Ottoman caliphate. In 1517, Sultan Selim I brought the Caliph Al-Mutawakkil III, a distant descendant of the Abbasids who were expelled from Baghdad in 1258, from Cairo to Istanbul.

In 1924, Turkish leader Kemal Ataturk officially abolished the Ottoman caliphate. Today, most Western discussions of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), the extremist group that has declared ...

The mystery begins in 1931, in Nice on the French Riviera, when the last caliph of Islam was in exile. In November of that year, his daughter, Princess Durrusehvar, married Prince Azam Jah, the ...

The last major caliphate was that of the Ottomans and lasted from 1301 to 1922. The city of Constantinople, modern-day Istanbul, during the height of the Ottoman Empire in 1895 Flikr via ...

He defined the caliphate as the concept of the caliph as a sovereign over the umma, the Muslim community, or as the source of legitimate political authority for the umma. The caliph, he said, is the ...

A careful study of the first caliphate (632-661 C.E.) demonstrates that the ISIS caliphate launched by Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi in Iraq is a non-starter. A ...

Christmas Specials | The Ottoman caliphate. Straddling two worlds Worldly, pluralist, ... “This is all I have left that’s my great-great-grandfather’s, the caliph’s,” he says.

When the Jews were driven out of Spain in 1492 they found sanctuary in Ottoman territories. In 1992, their descendants in Israel held a special 500-year ceremony to remember that.

I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast – Revelation 20:4 The caliphate wages jihad against Christians.

While one Reformation split Europe in two, the Ottoman ruler put his own in place. ... the first caliph, elected immediately after the Prophet’s death in 632, was poisoned, too.) ...