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The territorial jurisdiction of a caliph
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Caliphate \Cal"i*phate\, n. [Cf. F. califat.] The office, dignity, or government of a caliph or of the caliphs.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A unified federal Islamic government for the Muslim world, ruled by an elected head of state or caliph.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A caliphate ( khilāfa ) is an area containing an Islamic steward known as a caliph ( )—a person considered a religious successor to the Islamic prophet , Muhammad ( Muhammad ibn ʿAbdullāh ), and a leader of the entire Muslim community . The Rashidun caliphs ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ By 750 the time had come for the caliphate itself to be transformed and for the Umayyad regime to be dislodged. ▪ The issue on which these tensions mainly centred was the succession to the caliphate . ▪ The way was now clear ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"dominion of a caliph," 1610s, from caliph + -ate (1). Meaning "rank of a caliph" is recorded from 1753.
Usage examples of caliphate.
Not until the Arab conquest and the coming of Islam did Mesopotamia begin to regain its glory, particularly when Baghdad was the seat of the Abbasid caliphate between 750 and 1258.
He stressed that this step would pave the way for ending the alien rule that the Iraqis had experienced since the latter days of the Abbasid caliphate.
Persecution of Shia Imams during the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates reinforced the need for taqiyah .
The tribal mode probably originated in the unstable social conditions that resulted from the protracted decline of the Abbasid Caliphate and the subsequent cycles of invasion and devastation.
Seljuk Turks or the Abbasid caliphate during the time when they were carrying the big stick?
As so often he wore his portable sundial strapped to his hip, a monstrously heavy bronze piece cast in Baghdad during the fifth Abbasid caliphate.
Sultan believed, learning the trick of making black holes had given him the key to the Caliphate.
Caliphate mathematical technique to establish a metastable equilibrium that allows convex regions with real and virtual histories to coexist in four-dimensional space-time, while remaining both topologically distinct and contiguous in five-space.
Today Haroun, the much-detested Caliph Will find his Caliphate inopportune.
Today Haroun, the much-detested Caliph, Will find Caliphate inopportune!
Abdul, your refurbished Emir refrained from making a bid at the Caliphate Congress.
It had been going on for eight years now, ever since a date had been fixed for the next Caliphate Congress.
From a practical point of view, winning the Caliphate of all Islam was a greater prize than gaining empty title to a cluster of stars that were so far away that news from them was only ancient history.
Emir by now, then that son of a psoriatic skin scraping is no longer a contender for the Caliphate anyway.
He attended the Caliphate Congress session the following day, still wearing his humble ihram garb, with one shoulder bare.