The caliph’s palace sits atop, and the ruins flow down to Al-Andalus’s once bustling administrative and religious centres. A palpable sense of anticipation remains as more than 90 per cent of ...

Criterion (iii): The abandoned Caliphate City of Medina Azahara, being a new city planned and built as a state initiative, attests in an exceptional way to the Umayyad cultural and architectural ...

IS released a new propaganda video where it says it wants to restore “al-Andalus” – a word for Muslim-ruled areas of Spain and Portugal in the Middle Ages. This video emerged a week after the fatal ...

In June the leader of Islamic State declared the creation of a caliphate stretching across parts of Syria and Iraq - Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi named himself the caliph or leader. Edward Stourton ...

On June 29, 2014, which coincided with the first day of Ramadan, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) declared the restoration of the caliphate. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, a shadowy figure with a ...

“Allah willing, Al Andalus will become again what it was, part of the caliphate. Spanish Christians, don’t forget the Muslim blood spilt during the Spanish inquisition.

Andalus, as it was called, flourished not only in economic terms but it also was known as one of the great centers of arts, poetry, architecture, science, and learning. This was at a time when much of ...

In June the leader of Islamic State declared the creation of a caliphate stretching across parts of Syria and Iraq - Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi named himself the caliph or leader. Edward Stourton ...