INTERNATIONAL: Illusory Caliphate idea drives al-Qaida
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- 'Golden Age'
- Umayyad
- Abbasid
- Duties
- Decline
- Mamluks and Ottomans
- Ambiguous title
- End of the Caliphate
- Re-establishment hopes
- Nationalist urges
- Disappointed nationalism
- Islamist solution
- Bin Laden project
- Mecca and Medina
- Caliphate outlook
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