Discussion: Caliphate as a Political System - Myth or Reality?
From the archive (2014): QeRN’s caliphate conference — subjecting the era’s most dangerous slogan to public scholarship, weeks after ISIS claimed it.
Why this matters now (2026): The index of QeRN’s 2014 conference, convened weeks after ISIS declared its caliphate: scholars asked whether the caliphate was myth or workable system, in public, with papers. Kept as institutional memory of doing the responsible thing at a dangerous moment — subjecting a slogan to scholarship. See About the QeRN Archive and Theology for Builders.
- Speakers’ Papers and Presentations - Dr. Nevin Reda: The Caliphate, Sharia and the Search for an Islamic Political Theology: A Contemporary Perspective
- Dr. Tahir Qazi: Caliphate as a Political System
- Dr. Daniel Pipes: The Caliphate Brings Trauma
- Javed Chaudry: Chronology of the Historical Caliphates
- Munir Pervaiz Saami : Historical Form of Succession in Caliphates
- Imam Shehryar Shaikh: The Theology of the Concept of Caliphate
- Discussion and Questions