Caliph

Walt states that revolutions exhibit a number of common features. First, a states administrative and coercive capacity must be in a weakened by a combination of internal and external challenges for revolutions to be possible. Key international and intra-national events created permissive conditions favorable for jihadism to develop and flourish. Several key decisive events illustrate this first point. The end of the Ottoman Empire and enactment of the Sykes-Picot agreement broke the empire into…

a civil war, it increased its operations there. It split from al-Qaeda in February of 2014, and continued to gain power and territory. On June 29, 2014 ISIS again changed its name, creating a caliphate named the Islamic State, with Baghdadi as the caliph, although this caliphate has not been acknowledged by other countries (Standford University). In September of 2014, the US began supporting the Iraqi army by carrying out airstrikes against ISIS, eventually forming an international Anti-ISIS…

As the European nations sought to decrease the power of the Ottoman Empire, they introduced nationalism to the Arabs. The British seduced local Arab leaders to leave the Ottoman Empire and create their own state and Caliphate. The Arabs joined the fight wishing to gain their independence from the Ottomans. They wanted their own identity and a unified Arab region but what happened was the Arabs were separated into mandates governed by the French and British. The promises for Sheriff Hussein were…

The fluidity of calligraphy symbolizes the "intertwining" of stability and change that exists in the mortal world (Nasr 28). Islamic calligraphy has the appearance of a never ending line; the letters are all connected to one another and the writing seems to be constantly moving (Piostrovsky 29). The continual movement of the line "is one of the ways of manifesting [Allah] to this world" (27) and "projects the concept of continuity, of endlessness, of pluriformity" (29). The symbolism of…

ASSIGNMENT HISTORY OF THE HOLY QURAN The Quran represents the fountain head of divine guidance for every Muslim. It is revealed through the Angel Jibril, to the final prophet, Muhammad (P.B.U.H). Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was 40 years old when the first verse of Quran was revealed to Him. The revelation of Quran started in the Holy month of Ramadan. The revelation took place over the period of 23 years. Angel Jibril used to bring the message of Allah to the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) that…

Salahuddin Al-Ayubi - warlords who admired. Salahuddin al-Ayubi was born in 532 AH 1138 AD in Tarkit that part of the West Bank of the River Tigris, located between Mosul and Baghdad. His father, a governor named Najm bin Shadhin is the nephew of Sultan Nurudin Zenggi, Kurdistan descent who came from Azerbaijan. Aside from being a warlord, he was also a preacher and leader of the non-Muslim leaders of the Arab nation. During his lifetime, he was in a tent more war than live in the palace with…

Cherry’s honest belief is that Obama is a Muslim, and he honestly believes that Barack Obama is the “twelfth Iman” (the Muslim “messiah”). The president desperately wants to establish a caliphate (an area containing an Islamic steward known as a caliph,a person considered…

In our country ISIS is a huge threat. People are scared, worried, stressed, etc. In our world, ISIS are terrible people who do hateful things to people. They like to make surprise attacks, inflict maximum casualties and spread many different types of fear before withdrawing, suffering, and heavy losses. ISIS has threatened the U.S. many times. (According to independent) They had proven to be a growing force to be reckoned with. They will live up to their barbaric reputation and to continue to…

loyalty to the head, but it also encouraged the growth of Arab nationalism, by highlighting the corruption of Turkish rulers. Arabs began to seek a return to the “purity of Islam,” thus moving the center from the Turks, to the Arabs, so therefore the caliph should be Arab. This only became more necessary with the victory of the Committee of Union and Progress in 1913, where the Arabs were cut loose, driving many Arab nationalism, which sought to reform Islam. And, doing so would move away from…

The Shiat Ali, or partisans of Ali, formed following the 680 murder of Ali’s son Hussein and his followers by the Umayyad Caliph Yazid I in Karbala, Iraq. Following the death of Hussein, the Shia would remain a source of instability for the Umayyad regime, waging a low level insurgency against the Umayyad state and eventually supporting the Abbasid revolution that overthrew…