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2 days ago · The Rashidun Caliphate (Arabic: ٱلْخِلَافَةُ ٱلرَّاشِدَةُ, romanized: al-Khilāfah ar-Rāšidah) was the first caliphate to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad. It was ruled by the first four successive caliphs of Muhammad after his death in 632 CE.
4 days ago · He established a new unified polity in Arabia (known today as the first Islamic state) that expanded rapidly under the Rashidun Caliphate and the Umayyad Caliphate, culminating in Muslim rule being established on three continents (Asia, Africa, and Europe) over the next century.
- 622-750 CE
- Muslim victory
2 days ago · The Umayyads continued the Muslim conquests, conquering Ifriqiya, Transoxiana, Sind, the Maghreb and Hispania ( al-Andalus ). At its greatest extent, the Umayyad Caliphate covered 11,100,000 km 2 (4,300,000 sq mi), [1] making it one of the largest empires in history in terms of area. The dynasty was toppled by the Abbasids in 750.
2 days ago · Is the Caliphate a monarchy? written by islamciv. This is based on an excerpt from the book Questions on Kingship, by Professor Muḥammad al-Mas’ari produced by the Renascence Foundation. It seems that Allah mentions kings and kingship in the Qur’an in a positive way, saying they are a ni’mah (blessing) or a divine favour.
There are religious nut jobs in the Saudi and Iranian governments. The king of Saudi Arabia can declare himself caliphate, because of the Saudi control of Mecca. The Iranians don’t want a caliphate. The king of Saudi Arabia does not declare caliphate because doing so would cause Iran to maybe get a bit too pissed off. So he doesn’t.
4 days ago · This dimension of the concept became particularly prominent when Saudi Arabia, in an attempt to ward off a potential Iraqi invasion of its land, invited 500,000 (mostly non-Muslim) American soldiers to defend the kingdom against the (mostly Muslim) Iraqi army, which led to protests in Saudi Arabia itself and rejection among Salafis elsewhere. 32
4 days ago · Shi’i, member of the smaller of the two major branches of Islam, the Shi’ah, distinguished from the majority Sunnis and characterized especially by the belief that the spiritual and political leadership of the Muslim community was designated to pass through the lineage of Ali, Muhammad’s cousin and son-in-law.
