// Workers AI · dad joke modeIs Islamic State a caliphate? Does it have a state of mind?

Islamic state may refer to historical polities or theories of governance in the Islamic world or to a modern notion (dawla islamiyya) associated with political Islam.

Islamic state may also refer to:

First Islamic state, a polity established in Medina in 622
Islamic State of Afghanistan, the official name of the country Afghanistan from 1992 to 2001
Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan, transitional state after the fall of the Islamic State of Afghanistan in 2002
Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), a Sunni jihadist group that aimed to establish an Islamic state in Iraq from 2006 to 2013
Islamic State (IS), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) or the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), or Daesh (based on its Arabic acronym), an outgrowth of ISI with a greater geographic scope
- Abu Sayyaf, also known as the Islamic State - East Asia Province
- Islamic State – Algeria Province
- Islamic State – Caucasus Province
- Islamic State – Central Africa Province
- Islamic State – Khorasan Province
- Islamic State – Sinai Province
- Islamic State – West Africa Province
- Islamic State – Yemen Province
- Islamic State in the Greater Sahara
- Islamic State in Libya
- Islamic State in Somalia
Azawad, a territory in Mali, also known as the Islamic State of Azawad
Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist
The Islamic State (documentary), a VICE News documentary about ISIS

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