Fustat was the center of power in Egypt under the Umayyad dynasty, which had started with the rule of Muawiyah I, and headed the Islamic caliphate from 660 to 750.
After the emergence of The Voice of the Caliphate, Ahmad Ali Hazrat, head of Nangarhar's provincial council, fretted that Afghanistan's lurking unrest, as well as its high rates of poverty and unemployment, would make the province a fertile breeding ground for the group's radicalism.
The proposed new Authorization for the Use of Military Force, or AUMF, against the Islamic State "and associated forces" includes no geographic limitations, in keeping with the administration's description of the group as seeking expansion beyond Iraq and Syria, and the Islamic State's own claim to head a "caliphate" spanning the Muslim world.
On the first day of Ramadan last year, ISIS declared a self-proclaimed caliphate centered in the territory it had captured in Syria and Iraq, and anointed its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as caliph, the head of state — or, as the statement announcing the caliphate put it, "the leader of Muslims everywhere".
They were crammed — 50 to an open truck — and their heads jolted as they sped down the long road from the caliphate, followed by a convoy of journalists.
Proclaiming the caliphate puts Isis on a collision course with al-Qaida central, headed by Osama bin Laden's Egyptian successor Ayman al-Zawahiri, whose rift with Baghdadi has been in the open for months.
Even the caliphate claims have been properly refuted in point 22. F.
You can lead the caliphate.
His successor moved the caliphate to Baghdad.
The caliphate is a reality".
The caliphate is a fantasy.
