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...n and a "brand name" of affiliates, all centered around reestablishing the Caliphate through armed jihad. "Terrorist" is used here as a familiar term, but it wi While it is certainly strongly Islamist, wants a return of the Caliphate, and seeks Muslim unity, as in Michael Scheuer's analysis of Abu Jandal, <

...After the collapse of the western Roman Empire and the rise of the Islamic caliphate in the east, peregrination to the Holy Land became far more difficult.

* [[Caliphate]]

With the [[Rashidun Caliphate]] invasion of the Sassanid Empire in 650 CE, the religion started to declin

...centuries. Military excursions by [[Muhammad bin-Qasim]] of the [[Ummayyid Caliphate]] began the first Islamic conquest of the subcontinent. This was followed b

...] leaders. Rather than having a stifling effect, the disintegration of the caliphate expanded the opportunities to Jewish and other professionals. The services

...verthrow one or more of the regimes within the boundary of the 7th century caliphate. Unconventional warfare would be used to overthrow these regimes.

...lled Mullah Omar :legitimate ruler of the state of Afghanistan...the pious caliphate will start from Afghanistan." While these statements were probably sincere,

...chroniclers who portrayed him as an 'erect cypress of the garden of the [[caliphate]]' and frequently used plant metaphors to praise his good governance, perso

When Mu'āwīya died in 680, the caliphate passed to his son, Yazīd, viewed by most Muslims as a tyrant. The transiti