3.Uthman ibn Affan. Uthman was also a companion of Prophet Muhammad and he became 3rd Caliph of Islam after Umar's death. In reign of Uthman Rashidun Caliphate reached its zenith.

The Rashidun Caliphate lasted for approximately 30 years and during that time "extended from the Arabian Peninsula, to the Levant, Caucasus and North Africa in the west, ...

The Rashidun caliphate (632-661) was the first, and was founded after the death of Muhammad. "Rashidun," under Sunni Islam, refers to the first four caliphs of the Rashidun caliphate -- Abu Bakr ...

His would be the newest caliphate in a line extending from the Rashidun Caliphate (632-661), through the Umayyads (661-750), Abbasids (750-1517) and Ottomans (1453-1924).

The Rashidun Caliphate covered over 3 million square miles of land - almost 6% of the earth's land-mass.. This empire began when Mohammad died in 632 AD and his followers scrambled to acquire his ...

The Rashidun Caliphate is portrayed as a 25 year era of rapid military expansion, subsequently a five-year period of internal strife. four of these Islamic caliphs were assassinated by the hands ...

The Battle of al-Qadisiyyah, fought in 636 AD in what is now Iraq, was a crucial victory for Arab Muslim forces of the ...

The Rashidun caliphate has been seen as legitimate by a large number of Muslims, something the Islamic State cannot claim to enjoy. But that has not prevented the group’s call for all Muslims to ...

On June 29, 2014, which coincided with the first day of Ramadan, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) declared the restoration of the caliphate. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, a shadowy figure with a ...