100 Years without Khilafah Re-establish it O Muslims!
This Month, Rajab, of this Hijri year of 1442, marks 100 years since the formal destruction of the...
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Category: Khilafah
Must the Khalifah be from Quraysh? An Usooli perspective
There is a difference of opinion amongst scholars regarding whether the Khalifah has to be...
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Imam al-Ghazali on the Caliphate and its centrality to Islam
Imam Al Ghazali is rightly revered as one of the great scholars of Islamic history. Some...
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Glad tidings: Explaining the hadith on Khilafah’s return in Musnad Ahmed
Without doubt one of the most famous and inspiring evidences on the topic of the Khilafah...
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Shafi’i Scholars on the Caliphate & its Jurisprudence
We’ve previously covered the Hanafi ulema’s opinion on the Khilafah, and the Hanbali...
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Hanbali Scholars on the Caliphate & its Jurisprudence
The Caliphate is the polity (political entity) which implements the law and spirit of Islam...
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No Caliph for 3 years: when the Mongols sacked Abbasid Baghdad
In 1258, the Mongol Ilkhanate invaded the Caliphate and ransacked the capital for 13 days,...
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Did the Caliphate last only 30 years? – A Response
In recent times, some people have made the curious argument that the Khilafah only lasted...
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Hanafi Scholars on the Caliphate & its Jurisprudence
Ulama of the Hanafi madhhab (school of thought), like those of the other madhahib,...
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Is the Caliphate Irrelevant in the Modern World?
The idea of the irrelevance of the Caliphate as a governmental model in the modern world is not altogether new. It has been raised by several writers over the past few years and came into sharp focus as a result of the (false) proclamation of a Caliphate by ISIL in 2014. While the legitimacy of ISIL’s claim has been repudiated by Muslims all over the world, this thesis itself is worth interrogating for the broader claims it makes.
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The Ruling System in Islam – A Brief Overview
More than two centuries of foreign cultural and ideological onslaught have left its mark on the...
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Classical Scholars on Khilafah
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