What is a caliphate?

Описание: Christian C. Sahner, author of Among the Ruins: Syria Past and Present, explains the origins and meanings of the “caliphate” as well as its significance to ISIS. http://global.oup.com/academic/produc...

Christian C. Sahner is an historian of the Middle East. He graduated from Princeton University and the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He is completing his doctorate at Princeton, focusing on the role of non-Muslims in Islamic societies. Sahner's writing has been published in The Times Literary Supplement and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications.

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