Sentences with phrase «ancient caliphate»

It is part of the imagined Khorasan territory of the ancient caliphate that ISIS seeks to recreate.

It takes little imagination to grasp why stationing American troops in Saudi Arabia, the Muslim holy land, or attacking Iraq (and hence Baghdad), the seat of the ancient caliphate, is an affront to Muslims.

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The second myth about the rise of science is that Westerners only picked up the baton from the ancient Greeks, or, as has been more recently alleged, the Islamic caliphate.