The 2016 presidential race has been loaded with rhetoric about a so-called “ISIS caliphate." But what exactly is a caliphate? And what does it mean to say that ISIS has one? This hour, local Islamic scholar Dr. Feryal Salem fills us in.
And later: from the author of The Revenge of Geography comes a new book rooted in the history and culture of Romania. We chat with Robert D. Kaplan about his latest release, called In Europe’s Shadow.
GUESTS:
- Dr. Feryal Salem - Assistant professor of Islamic Scriptures and Law; co-director of the Islamic Chaplaincy Program at Hartford Seminary
- Robert D. Kaplan - Senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security and a contributing editor at The Atlantic; his latest book is called In Europe’s Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond
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John Dankosky and Chion Wolf contributed to this show.