The Caliphate and Global Islamic Politics

Publisher: Al-Obeikan Library Number of pages: 144 The world witnessed the events of the Arab Spring in 2011, where the hope of the Arab civil society was renewed by those events, and with Libya and Syria descending into civil war and chaos, the success of civil society in finding its own space remains questionable; as the fall of seemingly entrenched authoritarian regimes did not benefit civil society much, but Islamic political movements took advantage of the vacuum to establish bases and launch operations to implement their ideology. After several years of the first protests, Islamic groups return strongly in some Middle Eastern and North African countries, (in Syria, Iraq, towns in Libya, and some areas of Lebanon), where groups like the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, or Ansar al-Sharia, or other groups declare the appointment of caliphs in the areas they seize, in an attempt to achieve the Islamic political goal of establishing a (global Islamic caliphate) that includes the entire Muslim world. This book presents the author's particular perspective, as well as the Western view in general, on political Islam, in addition to an evaluation of the Islamic State and its challenge to concepts, realism, and logic, with a focus throughout on the relationship between Islam and democracy.