Caliphate

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• 6-27-17
  

  Review of Hugh Kennedy’s “Caliphate: The History of an Idea”

  by Daniel Lazare

  Somebody slapped the wrong title on Hugh Kennedy’s political history of Islam from Muhammad to the Ottomans.

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• SOURCE: Daniel Pipes Blog
  3-20-17 (accessed)
  

  What Do Jihadis Want? The Caliphate

  by Daniel Pipes

  The answer is surprisingly obscure, as most of their attacks do not include clear demands.

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• 9-8-14
  

  This Is What Happened to the Last Person Who Claimed the Caliphate. It Didn't End Well for Him. There’s a Lesson in that.

  by Conor Meleady

  Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi will be no more successful in winning the support of the Muslim world than Husayn of Mecca, the last person to claim the caliph's mantle.

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• SOURCE: Aydınlık (Turkey)
  8-24-14
  

  The Caliphate Brings Trauma

  by Daniel Pipes

  "Declaring the caliphate on June 29 was a major event; and the caliphate is an institution whose time has long passed and, therefore, whose revival bodes much trauma."

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• SOURCE: Oriental Institute (University of Chicago)
  Summer 2014
  

  Before the latest fighting broke out, things had begun looking up for archaeology in Iraq

  by Gil J. stein

  "We at the Oriental Institute are excited to be playing a part in this archaeological renaissance."

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• 7-14-14
  

  The 10 Questions You Need Answers to About the Caliphate

  by Ali A. Olomi

  What is significant about Al-Baghdadi’s caliphate?

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• SOURCE: NYT
  7-2-14
  

  The Caliphate Fantasy

  by Khaled Diab

  "The problem with this new caliphate is that it is ahistorical, to say the least."