The Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series continues with an episode on the Christian mercenaries who served Muslim rulers in medieval Iberia and North Africa. In a time marked ...

Caliphate' was the religious and political institution which played an important role in Islamic history. During the Abbasid Caliphate, the Muslim civilisation reached its height. However, as ...

The first caliph, Selim I (1470-1520), who assumed power in 1512; and the last caliph Abdulmecid II (1868-1944), who was deposed in 1924 (Creative Commons) ...

In 836CE, Abbasid caliph al-Mu’tasim ordered the construction of a new capital city on the east bank of the Tigris River, in modern-day Iraq. Since 762, al-Mu’tasim’s predecessors had ruled ...

Medieval Muslim graves in France reveal a previously unseen history ... joining the Caliphate's armies and spreading into Spain, France, and Italy.

The Muslim Caliphate has not existed since the 13th century. Renee Montagne talks to historian Juan Cole, ... COLE: Well, it is a Sunni political institution of the medieval period.

Isis fighters in Iraq have declared themselves masters of a new caliphate. But their vision of a medieval-style religious state is based on false view of early Islamic history, according to experts.

For a time, the caliphate really did exist: a terrifying medieval prophecy sprung to life and captured in the pitiless freeze-frames of propaganda videos.