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Caliphal Baths

The Caliphal Baths are an Islamic bathhouse complex in Córdoba, Spain. They are situated in the historic centre which was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1994. The complex was contiguous read more...to the former Caliphal Palaces of the Umayyads, whose inhabitants it served. Today the baths have been partially reconstructed and are open as a museum.read less...

The Caliphate or the Grand Imamate

Al-Khilafa aw al-Imama al-ʿUzma is a compilation of a series of articles issued in Al-Manar magazine published as a book by the Syrian-Egyptian Islamic scholar Sayyid Rashid Rida shortly after the Turead more...rkish abolition of the Ottoman sultanate, during the winter of 1922-1923. In the treatise, Rida traced the historical origins of the caliphate and evaluated the gulf that existed between the theory and contemporary practice of the caliphate, and outlined the theoretical framework for an Islamic state. This work established Rashid Rida as the founding theoretician of the "Islamic state" in its modern sense.read less...

Islamic State

The Islamic State, abbreviated IS, at times known as Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, and also known by its Arabic acronym Daesh, is a militant read more...group and former unrecognized proto-state that follows a Salafi jihadist doctrine.read less...

Caliphaea

Caliphaea is a genus of broad-winged damselflies in the family Calopterygidae. There are about five described species in Caliphaea.

Ali

ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib was a cousin, son-in-law and companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He ruled as the fourth rightly guided caliph from 656 until his assassination in 661. He is also one ofread more... the central figures in Shia Islam, being regarded as the rightful immediate successor to Muhammad and the first Imam by all branches of Shia Muslims. He is the son of Abu Talib and Fatimah bint Asad, the husband of Fatima, and the father of Hasan, Husayn and Zaynab.read less...

Umayyad Caliphate

The Umayyad Caliphate was the second of the four major caliphates established after the death of Muhammad. The caliphate was ruled by the Umayyad dynasty. The third caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate, Uread more...thman ibn Affan, was also a member of the Umayyad clan. The family established dynastic, hereditary rule with Muawiya ibn Abi Sufyan, long-time governor of al-Sham, who became the sixth caliph after the end of the First Fitna in 661. After Mu'awiyah's death in 680, conflicts over the succession resulted in the Second Fitna, and power eventually fell into the hands of Marwan I from another branch of the clan. The region of Syria remained the Umayyads' main power base thereafter, and Damascus was their capital.read less...