What Is a Caliphate?

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10. Al-Baghdadi

There have been other caliphs in addition to the first four and the Ahmadiyya caliphate is still in existence today. One of the most notable “caliphs” of recent years, however, is Ab Bakr al-Baghdadi. Al-Baghdadi was born in Iraq and would go on to become the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

In 2013, al-Baghdadis ISIL expanded into Syria. In 2014, he was named as caliph and requested that Muslims from all over the world joined his caliphate. Hundreds of thousands did and helped serve a horrific regime that saw countless human rights abuses and terrorist activities. He was killed by US special forces in October 2019. The vast majority of Muslims refuse to acknowledge his caliphate as legitimate.

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