According to Dr. Usama Hasan, a Senior Fellow at the Quilliam Foundation, part-time Imam, and expert on Islam,
An Islamist caliphate, by definition, covers the entire ‘MuslimComment: I have very little knowledge or understanding of this, but it seems that declaring a Caliphate also means that it claims to rule over the entire Muslim World and thus it declares war on every other country in the Middle East. How does the King of Saudi Arabia feel about this?
World’… The hypothetical return of a Caliph in Islamic
jurisprudence implies a large degree of Muslim unity, with these
united Muslim masses willingly pledging allegiance to him. This is
the fundamental mistake of [IS], a fatal flaw for their theological
credentials. They may have been entitled to declare an ‘Islamic
emirate’ (as the Taliban did in Afghanistan) or even an ‘Islamic
state,’ just as Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Mauritania are
‘Islamic republics.’ But to declare a caliphate for all Muslims when
they rule over, at best, a few tens of millions Syrians and Iraqis out
of a worldwide Muslim population of 1.2-1.5 billion, is to destroy
any notion of Muslim representation or unity.
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