The feared caliphate: Is this what the West fears?
This is the historic extent of the last caliphate .. before the Turkish conquest.
Moreover … note the final version .. th Abassid. This regime existed in what the West calls its Dark Ages … but in truth it was a golden age of learning. The Renaissance was less a rebirth than it was the barbarian west finally sipping at the wealth of knowledge from the Islamic caliphate.
Actually, this table ignores a rival caliphate … the Cordoban calliphate, a very open form of Islam derived from the Umayyad, that rules in spain about a 1housand tears ago. My own family lived under the Cordoban caliphate and only fled with Isaac Abravanel when the Christian Barbarians came to power in Andalus.
| 632 | death of Mohammed |
| 632-661 | Rashidun Caliphate [orange] |
| 661-750 | Umayyad Caliphate [yellow] |
| 750-1258 | Abassid Caliphate |
