Muhammad's Successors - The Four Caliphs Let's have a look at the era of the four Medina-based Caliphs or "Rightly Guided Caliphs", in the time immediately after Mohammed passed away. The first Caliph, Abu Bakr By the time of Muhammad's death in 632, Islam had become a dominant power in the …
About Islam
What Christian's should know about Islam, history, and culture
Dynasties and Empires of the Muslim World
The next fourteen hundred years (see previous article) are a remarkable story of dynasties and empires struggling for power across the globe. We begin with the Umayyad Dynasty. The Umayyad Dynasty The Umayyad Dynasty lasted for nearly one hundred years (661 - 750). The successor dynasty, Abbasid …
Sufism now and then
(Written from an Indian perspective.)Initiated Into SufismAnwar was filled with excitement, anticipation, and a bit of fear. After completing nearly a year of exercises to be accepted into his father's order of Sufism, he was to be initiated at last and would become a Murid, or a disciple in …
