Dr Dominic Selwood is a historian and barrister. He is the author of Spies, Sadists and Sorcerers: The History You Weren’t Taught at School (2015), and the crypto-thrillers The Sword of Moses (2013) ...

The Battle of Tours was a significant military conflict that occurred in 732 near the city of Tours, in modern-day France.

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A careful study of the first caliphate (632-661 C.E.) demonstrates that the ISIS caliphate launched by Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi in Iraq is a non-starter. A viable Islamic caliphate would most certainly ...

The history of the caliphate of the Orthodox period raised almost all the main issues about powers and personalities which have dominated the discussions of the nature and potential of the office ever ...

An image of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who died on Oct. 26, 2019.. Department of Defense via AP Just days after the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on Oct. 27, the Islamic State named ...