In order to understand ISIS's idea of caliphate, we have to understand its roots deep in the Muslim tradition.

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, a shadowy figure with a $10 million price on his head, was declared the new caliph. ... Abbasid or Ottoman Caliphates, to say nothing of the Shiʽite Fatimid Caliphate.

At its height, the Fatimid Caliphate stretched across the southern Mediterranean, from eastern Morocco to southern Turkey. From their base in Syria in 909, the Fatimids’ Ismaili leaders marched ...

How Armenian vezirs revived Fatimid Caliphate Numerous Armenians, who settled in foreign countries, used to occupy high-ranking military and state positions there. PanARMENIAN.Net presents the ...

The coins are identified as dinars, the official currency of the Fatimid caliphate that ruled much of the Mediterranean from A.D. 909 to 1171. The find was made by accident in early February, ...

The U.K. recognized Egypt as a country in 1922, but the Fatimid Caliphate conquered Egypt back in 969. One could even argue that Egypt was born when the First Dynasty of Egypt formed around 3100 BCE.