Caliphate in a sentence

He based his claim to the caliphate on his Umayyad ancestors who had held undisputed control of the caliphate until they were overthrown by the Abbasids.

Yazid expanded the Caliphate's territory into the Caucasus, before dying in 724. Inheriting the caliphate from his brother, Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik ruled an empire with many problems.

Although the criminal gangs are largely motivated by financial gains from ransom payments, some have forged ties with jihadists from northeast Nigeria where they are waging a 14-year old insurgency to establish a Caliphate.

Canada has just announced the film we'll send to next year's Oscars: is a documentary about people who want to establish that Islamic caliphate.

Girls are expected to seek marriage to strong male fighter figures – they call themselves the ‘lions of the caliphate’,” explains Nyawira.

He said the reason people joined the extremist group, which killed tens of thousands of people as it tried to create an Islamic Caliphate, was that they had 'lost hope'.

The government had argued that Mr. Saipov carried out the truck attack in order to become a member of the Islamic State, a terrorist group that once held authority over large areas in Iraq and Syria and had pledged to create a new Muslim caliphate.

The caliphate collapsed in Iraq, where it once had a base only a 30-minute drive from Baghdad, and in Syria, after a sustained military campaign by a U.S.-led coalition.

The group claims it only seeks to establish the caliphate in the Muslim world and not in western countries such as the UK.

The Islamic State group, which once held a self-described caliphate across territory in Iraq and Syria, has launched attacks around as well.

The new kid on the block is Hizb ut-Tahrir (HuT), an international Islamic movement seeking to unite Muslims across the world under a caliphate.

Unlike Netanyahu, Erdogan has broader designs on the Middle East, including, at least in his mind’s eye, the resurrection of the Ottoman caliphate.

According to the caliphate's interpretation of Islamic legal principles, fighters who seize money or property are supposed to share four fifths of the loot among themselves and give one fifth to the organisation.

Despite the misrepresentations and lack of corroboration, The Times is not removing “Caliphate” from its website or podcast apps.

Most recently, the two militaries fought side by side to destroy the Islamic State’s caliphate in Iraq.

Now, over six months after the fall of the territorial caliphate, the country faces the mother of all returnee problems: what to do about the scores of its nationals who are currently in detention in Syria and Iraq.

Pakistan was never an Ottoman land, and Indian Muslims only accepted the Ottoman Caliphate after the fall of the Mughal dynasty.

The Isis caliphate had collapsed and its fighters had scattered.

There was a time she went to war against a particular caliphate that was involved in some issues she felt wasn’t right.

The star of Caliphate was a young man using the pseudonym Abu Huzayfah al-Kanadi ("the Canadian" in Arabic).