Al-Mu'tamid was largely confined to Samarra, while al-Muwaffaq and his personal secretaries (Sulayman ibn Wahb, Sa'id ibn Makhlad and Isma'il ibn Bulbul) ruled the Caliphate from Baghdad.
Umayyad dynasty, also spelled Omayyad, the first great Muslim dynasty to rule the empire of the Caliphate (661 750 ce), sometimes referred to as the Arab kingdom (reflecting traditional Muslim disapproval of the secular nature of the Umayyad state).
Umayyad dynasty, also spelled Omayyad, the first great Muslim dynasty to rule the empire of the caliphate (661 750 ce), sometimes referred to as the Arab kingdom (reflecting traditional Muslim disapproval of the secular nature of the Umayyad state).
The caliphs — and eventually the sultans who came to rule once the caliphate lost most of its worldly influence — still had plenty of power.
Bin Laden and his sympathizers want to re-establish the caliphate and rule the Muslim world, but unlike some earlier revivalist movements within Sunni Islam, they do not declare their leader as the mahdi, or guided one, whose appearance will usher in a golden age of justice and peace to be followed by the Day of Judgment.
Another rising radical force is the Indonesian chapter of Hizb-ut-Tahrir, which wants a caliphate to rule the whole Muslim world.
Many of the clans hastened to visit Khalid and submit to the rule of the Caliphate.
In the 7th century, North Africa and the Middle East, once part of the Eastern Roman Empire came under the rule of the Caliphate, an Islamic empire, after conquest by Muhammad's successors.
With Abbasid rule over the Caliphate weakening in the mid 9th-century, Homs became sought after by rebel dynasties contending for control of Syria due to the city's strategic position.
(An Islamic caliphate ruled the Middle East for over six hundred years, until the thirteenth century).
ISIS claims to be setting up a religiously ruled caliphate in the territory it controls, and Sotloff addresses Baghdadi as "caliph".
