Baghdadi conveniently declared that he would rule it as "Caliph Ibrahim, commander of the faithful" — a caliph for all Muslims.
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The fourth caliph, Imam Ali, fought them and killed them.
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Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan wants to be caliph, not president.
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The imam implicitly compared the crown prince to Caliph Umar.
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We are not in charge, the order is from the caliph'.
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Ali eventually did become caliph after Abu Bakr's two successors were assassinated.
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ISIS is referring to al-Baghdadi's successor as the "caliph" as well.
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Al-Baghdadi became the declared caliph of the newly renamed Islamic State group.
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He proclaimed himself the caliph, ruler of all Muslims, from the mosque's pulpit.
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At the time of this writing, canine culprit Caliph appeared to show no remorse.
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He called himself caliph, an earthly ruler, rather than a mythological mahdi, or messiah.
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Mr. al-Baghdadi's death demonstrated to remaining supporters that even the "caliph" is vulnerable.
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Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Islamic State's self-proclaimed caliph, is still at large.
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Iran and Russia claim that IS's self-declared caliph, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is dead.
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It is widely believed among jihadis that a "caliph" must have certain attributes and credentials.
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As khalifa, or caliph, of the Islamic State, Baghdadi never granted an interview to anyone.
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IS's "caliph", Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, had foretold of the capitulation in a dream, explained apologists.
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"With no land to rule openly, he can no longer claim the title caliph," Hashimi said.
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The Dutch tried to stop their Muslim subjects deferring to the caliph in their public prayers.
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Baghdadi had pretensions to be a "caliph" and run a state, something bin Laden never tried.
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This is three days before Baghdadi walked into the Al Nuri mosque and declared himself caliph.
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As long as the caliph was virtuous and law-abiding, Islamic thinkers obliged Muslims to obey him.
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In an exchange of letters, the Ottoman caliph, Murad III, praised Protestantism as "the most sound religion".
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The show's host, Wajih Abbas, compared 7th century Muslim caliph Othman to Saddam Hussein, offending Sunni sentiments.
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Some make her the daughter of Muatamid bin Abbad, a wine-drinking caliph descended from the Prophet.
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Even the "caliph", Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is said to have fled to take refuge in a village.
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He said he was the Caliph Ibrahim, the self-anointed spiritual leader of a 20183 billion-strong religion.
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" Baghdadi is the self-styled caliph of ISIS, which quickly claimed Mateen as a "soldier of the caliphate.
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It was about political power: Who — as the caliph, or successor to the prophet — had the right to rule?
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It's not even clear that the group's Sharia Council, whose duties include selecting the "caliph" or leader, still functions.
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As Pak-Saudi plans to destroy the Ahmadiyya movement intensified, its caliph (leader) migrated to London that same year.
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Bass unearths the heretofore undocumented story of Caliph Washington and his trek through the depths of Jim Crow justice.
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This promising effort, which would make the caliph the head of a British-style democratic monarchy, was only half-successful.
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In Mosul he spoke at length, relishing his self-declared role -- deeply offensive to most Muslims -- as their new caliph.
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They join their hands and pledge allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-declared caliph of the Islamic State.
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" The statement added that his propaganda writings included a call for terrorists to pledge allegiance to al-Baghdadi as "caliph.
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In 1957, in Alabama, Caliph Washington, a young black man, was sentenced to death for killing a white police officer.
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And the militant fighters were bolstered by a rare message from the group's self-declared caliph, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
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It was modelled off a coin of the Abbasid Caliph al-Mansur, struck in Baghdad in the year 754–5.
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Baghdadi declared himself caliph and heir to Islam's historic leaders from the great medieval mosque in Iraq's Mosul in 2014.
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One of the rules for choosing a caliph is that he must be descended from the lineage of the prophet.
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THE last caliph to make the Syrian city of Raqqa his capital was a lover of fine wine, art and women.
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Some believed that a new leader should be chosen by consensus; others thought that only the prophet's descendants should become caliph.
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The Islamic State is now an organization that has lost its caliphate and its caliph within the space of several months.
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Still, it could be the most important window into the functioning of the enigmatic caliph and the organization he left behind.
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The second Caliph, Omar, discouraged conversion to Islam because he did not want the Persians polluting the religion of the Arabs.
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Police say that five men now in custody wrote e-mails pledging allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the IS "caliph".
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" This spring, ISIS leader Caliph al Baghdadi told his followers: "Our battle today is one of attrition and stretching the enemy.
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On Monday a fake press release was circulated, claiming the self-styled caliph of IS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed.
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"Muhaddath" was the title given by Prophet Muhammad to Umar Ibn al-Khattab, his companion and the second caliph of Islam.
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He stood at the pulpit of the medieval mosque in Mosul in 2014 to declare himself caliph, sovereign over all Muslims.
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A caliphate is like a kingdom ruled by — a caliphate is ruled by a caliph, a kingdom is ruled by a king.
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Several of its leaders were Sunni Turkmen from the city—two were deputies of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-declared caliph.
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At a recent gathering, at least 250 faithful from across the UK came to listen to their caliph Mirza Masroor Ahmad speak.
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The backdrop: Al-Baghdadi is the elected "caliph" of the Islamic State and one of the most wanted men in the world.
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They were ruled by Queen Califia, a name that seems to come from the feminine of the Arabic word "caliph," or ruler.
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The writing says Jaysh al-Khilafa (or the Army of the Caliphate), not Jaysh al-Khalifa (or the Army of the Caliph).
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The appointment of the new leader would require the approval of an eight-member shoura council, an advisory body to the caliph.
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Finally, there's one more lesson, which has already taken root in the so-called Arab street: Better a dictator than a caliph.
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Op-Ed Contributor Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-appointed caliph of the self-described Islamic State, might have been killed. Again.
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The money man A year ago al-Azy pledged allegiance to ISIS's self-proclaimed caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi over his mobile phone.
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The sultan got to keep the title of caliph, commander of the Sunni Muslim faithful, which his ancestors had acquired four centuries earlier.
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It deprives the Islamic State of its so-called caliph, and it is unclear if his successor will be as charismatic or competent.
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MORE FROM REUTERS From 'caliph' to fugitive: IS leader Baghdadi's new life on the run Commentary: UK's Theresa May is right to stay.
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When the Caliph Ali agreed to a form of arbitration that the Kharijites considered unholy, a Kharijite militant murdered Ali during his prayer.
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At the helm of ISIS is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, an IS self-proclaimed caliph and one of the world's most dangerous men.
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Walid spoke of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the caliph of the Islamic State, with the personal hatred that Trotskyists once expressed for Stalin.
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Obaidi or Jumaili would be unlikely to become caliph because they lack religious standing and Islamic State has lost much of its territory.
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"I received threats from the top leadership of ISIS, including from Abu Bakr (al-Baghdadi) himself," she says, referring to ISIS's self-declared caliph.
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A millennium ago the "mad caliph" of Cairo, Hakim, ordered the levelling of all churches, including the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, Jesus's burial site.
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But the Caliph Omar, my namesake, was too worried about his own political ambitions, and said there was no need for such a statement.
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The Ottoman Empire collapsed after joining the losing side in World War One under Osmanoglu's great-great-grandfather, Mehmet V, the world's penultimate caliph.
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Therefore, it is not a religious obligation to work towards a caliphate, nor is it sinful to live as a Muslim without a caliph.
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I realized the other day that almost all my Turkish journalist friends had been either jailed, fired or exiled by the caliph-tyrant Erdogan.
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Baghdadi awarded himself the title of caliph — the chief Muslim civil and religious ruler, regarded as the successor of the Prophet Mohammad — in 2014.
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"God ordered us to fight his enemies," he said in a video of the occasion, which presented him as "Caliph Ibrahim, commander of the faithful".
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" And most recently, the "caliph" himself, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, suggested ISIS will look for further opportunities to export its war to the "far abroad.
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Originally called the Church of Resurrection, it was destroyed by a Muslim caliph in 1009, but later Muslim leaders allowed Christians to rebuild the church.
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The militants' leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, proclaimed himself caliph from the pulpit of the mosque after the insurgents overran parts of Iraq and Syria.
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Al-Baghdadi also claimed to be descended from this tribe, a necessary qualification in ISIS' view for the caliph, or leader, of the Islamic world.
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On the attacker's cellphone, recovered at the scene, investigators found several pictures of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-styled caliph of the Islamic State.
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Denounced by the Catholic church as common heretical rogues, the head of a church cleansed of graven images and the caliph united against idol-worshipping Rome.
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In 2012, Qatar and Saudi Arabia pumped 200m Saudi riyals ($53m) into "Omar", a blockbuster television series about Omar Ibn al-Khattab, the second Islamic caliph.
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In any case, their military background and lack of religious credentials mean that any of Baghdadi's deputies would struggle to inherit his claims to be caliph.
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"I think it a wonderful thing that a British political leader has shown that Britain will not bow before the putative caliph in Ankara," he said.
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So if one day you hear that we've eliminated the ISIS caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and lowered the ISIS flag over Mosul, hold your applause.
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Although many of its leaders have been killed, the group's caliph, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and several of his top deputies, are believed to be alive.
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As Ms. Tabassum showed me pictures of her deceased husband, the television in the background played footage of the sect's caliph giving a sermon in Urdu.
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This arrangement is said to date from Jerusalem's Muslim conquest, when Caliph Omar held back from saying Islamic prayers in the Sepulchre church, thus leaving it Christian.
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From the pulpit of the city's great mosque, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of IS, proclaimed himself caliph and turned Iraq's second city into his base.
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But instead of just declaring the so-called caliph dead, Trump chose to answer questions for roughly 40 minutes in what turned into a wild press conference.
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It is not clear whether ISIS' overall leader, the self appointed caliph, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is in Mosul or elsewhere, according to a US military official.
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A Hilton hotel now stands on the site of Islam's first caliph, while the house of Muhammad's first wife has been turned into a block of toilets.
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In 796, the caliph Harun al-Rashid moved the seat of the Muslim Empire to the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, on the banks of the Euphrates.
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Alan Padzinski returned home from his workshop one day to find his girlfriend mourning a pair of destroyed $500 heels — heels unfairly targeted by their remorseless pup, Caliph.
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From the jihadi perspective, the entire legitimacy of the ISIS caliphate project rested on the notion that Baghdadi was a true "caliph" (divinely sanctioned ruler of all Muslims).
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An Islamic caliph in power around the year 1000 A.D. is said to have destroyed 3,000 Coptic churches and forced large numbers of Copts to abandon their faith.
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Prior administrations largely recognized that the Muslim Brotherhood is a deadly jihadist group that desires to establish a caliphate, ruled by a caliph and governed by Sharia law.
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I wasn't sure there would even be a pair there — "Caliph" seemed possible at 12D instead of CALIPHATE (which does make much more sense, but that's after solving).
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The 46-minute audio recording would be the first time since last November that supporters of the jihadist group have heard the voice of their self-proclaimed caliph.
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HE CALLS ME BY LIGHTNING The Life of Caliph Washington and the Forgotten Saga of Jim Crow, Southern Justice, and the Death Penalty By S. Jonathan Bass Illustrated.
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On July 12, 1957, the 17-year-old Caliph Washington drove home from a double date in Bessemer, a poverty-forged caldron of corruption, vice, violence and racism.
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The group's previous big PR effort, a rare audio speech by their leader and self-proclaimed caliph Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, achieved little traction in the western media.
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However, alcohol was not foreign to the Arabs; prominent religious figures—like the second caliph, Omar Ibn Al Khattab—and some of the Prophet's companions were known to imbibe.
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Three years later, he ascended the iconic Al Nuri Grand Mosque in Mosul to declare himself a caliph, ruling over one-third of Iraq and nearly half of Syria.
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"Hudayfah al-Badri ... the son of the Caliph ... was killed in an operation against the Nusayriyyah and the Russians at the thermal power station in Homs," the statement said.
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"Fleeing is like committing suicide," said Khalil, the ex-civil servant, who lives near the medieval Grand al-Nuri Mosque, the offensive's symbolic focus, where Baghdadi proclaimed himself caliph.
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Pan-Islam had emerged in the final decades of the Ottoman Empire, with the efforts of Sultan Abdulhamid II to lay claim to the title of caliph among Muslims.
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No sooner had Lladrovci returned, says Makolli, than he began to flood Facebook with reminiscences of his time in IS, including videos of decapitations and panegyrics to the caliph.
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There, Harun — the inspiration for a caliph in "One Thousand and One Nights" — is said to have played polo and perfumed the air with garments worn by female slaves.
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She wooed Morocco's Sultans, Persia's Shahs and above all the Ottoman caliph, who from his seat of Constantinople seemed best able to contend with the might of the Catholic Church.
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But the loss of territory in Iraq and Syria stripped him of the trappings of caliph and made him a fugitive in the desert border area between the two countries.
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Some suggest promoting the city not just as Imam Reza's burial place, but also Harun al-Rashid's, the eighth century caliph who presided over the golden age of Sunni Islam.
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Known as the Khawarij, they turned against the caliph of the day and assassinated him, because he was emollient enough to submit to arbitration in a conflict with a rival.
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The self-declared caliph of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, al-Baghdadi, 48, was instrumental in building ISIS into one of the most potent terrorist groups in history.
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But as soon as he receives a call from his old pal Felix Pinto, a jazz trumpeter known as "the Caliph of Cool," Abdullah has new vroom in his soul.
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In June 2014, ISIS overran it and the group's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, stood inside its Great Mosque of al-Nuri and named himself caliph of the terrifying regime.
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The brigade, which may have between 600 and 1,000 men, has sworn allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the "Caliph" of Islamic State (IS), also known by its Arabic acronym, Daesh.
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The toll meant that the Nigerian terrorists outdid their self-proclaimed caliph, the ISIS's Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, whose forces in Iraq and Syria killed 220006,2202 people in the same period.
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Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-declared caliph of the Islamic State, broke a nearly yearlong silence, imploring his forces to remain firm in the face of the American-backed offensive.
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" – @realDonaldTrump #MakeAmericaGreatAgain" Emad Hajjaj, a Jordanian cartoonist, merged the hair and the beard of Donald Trump and ISIS Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to imply unanimity in their hate speech and mindset.
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His speech from the mosque was the first time he revealed himself to the world and the footage broadcast then is to this day the only video recording of him as "caliph".
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It was from here that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi made his first and only video appearance, proclaiming himself "caliph" - the ruler of a theocratic Islamic state - on July 4, 2014.
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IF Baghdadi were killed, the death of the self-declared "Caliph" would be a huge symbolic loss, and a blow to the concept of an "Islamic State" of which he was the figurehead.
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"The lesson from this narration is that obedience to the caliph is an obligation if they rule by the Shariah," he says, referring to the legal code of Islam based on the Quran.
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Not only has the caliphate been decimated, but the caliph himself may also have been eliminated; the Syrian Observatory claims it has "confirmed information" that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - U.S.-backed fighters in Syria have captured a senior Islamic State leader who served as an assistant to the group's self-declared "caliph" Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, they said on Friday.
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The Department of State released a statement Friday announcing the $25 million dollar reward for the self proclaimed caliph of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria -- more than doubling the reward announced previously.
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At the top of the structural pyramid, there's the caliph — the spiritual and political leader of the caliphate on earth — a position still held, as far as we know, by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
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But when Turkey's new secular nationalist rulers finally abolished the office of caliph in 1924, their job was made easier by the fact that European powers had been sabotaging the sacred office for decades.
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Days later, Mr. al-Baghdadi, who had not been seen in public for years, delivered remarks in the Great Mosque of Mosul, reaffirming himself as the leader, or caliph, of the self-declared state.
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MOSCOW — Russia's military said on Friday that it was looking into whether one of its airstrikes in the Syrian desert had killed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-declared caliph of the Islamic State.
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As Erdogan aided and abetted Hamas and Hezbollah, all the while conducting low-thrum hostilities against Israel, President Obama drew him close — very publicly elevating the would-be caliph as his ally and adviser.
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The last appearance of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who declared himself caliph and heir to Islam's historic leaders from the great medieval mosque in Iraq's Mosul, was made in an audio recording in September.
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Influenced by Medieval Arabic manuscripts, his orientalist fantasy combines legend, incomplete first-hand observations by visitors throughout the ages, and visible Islamic additions after Tulinid Caliph Ahmad installed a Mosque on the site in 868.
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Last May, Sahrawi officially announced his allegiance to self-designated ISIS "caliph" Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in 2015, but ISIS never formerly accepted the group's pledge and never disseminated its news through their propaganda streams.
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Russia's military said today that it was looking into whether an airstrike in Syria had killed one of the world's most wanted terrorists: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-proclaimed caliph of the Islamic State.
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Between them, IS and the coalition have destroyed too many shrines and mosques to leave much of historic value, including the al-Nuri mosque dating back to Crusader times from where Mr Baghdadi proclaimed himself caliph.
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The man who was to lead that battle, the self-proclaimed caliph, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, instead blew himself up ingloriously in a tunnel in Syria on October 26th, killing three of his children as well.
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His closest followers could not decide if the role of caliph—the presumed successor to Muhammad as leader—should be elective or hereditary, a dispute that eventually led to the schism between, respectively, Sunnis and Shias.
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While Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as the caliph of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, has been the terror group's unquestioned leader, Adnani has been perhaps its most public figure, having made several audio recordings.
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"This strange man we had never seen before took the podium instead of our regular imam," said Fahd Qishmou, 48, who attended Baghdadi's infamous speech, proclaiming himself "caliph" over millions of people in Iraq and Syria.
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Islamic State (IS) held roughly one third of Syria and Iraq at the zenith of its power in 2014, when its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared himself "caliph", or leader of all the world's Muslims.
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Adnani was one of the last living senior members, along with self-appointed caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who founded the group and stunned the Middle East by seizing huge tracts of Iraq and Syria in 2014.
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Certainly, ISIS' raison d'etre -- and what distinguished it from groups like al Qaeda -- was to create and administer a caliphate, and to demand the obedience of all Muslims to the "righteous" caliph, one Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
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The man who was to lead that battle, the self-proclaimed caliph, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, instead blew himself up in a tunnel in Syria on October 26th, murdering two of his own children as he died.
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Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-declared caliph of the Islamic State, broke a nearly yearlong silence, imploring his forces to remain firm in the face of the American-backed offensive to retake the city of Mosul.
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The United States believes Iraq is the location of its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who stood at the pulpit of the great medieval mosque in Mosul in 2014 to declare himself caliph, sovereign over all Muslims.
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It can be written or recorded as audio or video, but the pledge is supposed to be to addressed to an individual, in this case the caliph of the Islamic State, and not to the organization overall.
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Experts on Islamist groups see no clear successor but regard Iyad al-Obaidi and Ayad al-Jumaili as the leading contenders, though neither would be likely to assume Baghdadi's title of "caliph" or overall commander of Muslims.
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