Crossword clues for caliphate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Caliphate \Cal"i*phate\, n. [Cf. F. califat.] The office, dignity, or government of a caliph or of the caliphs.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"dominion of a caliph," 1610s, from caliph + -ate (1). Meaning "rank of a caliph" is recorded from 1753.
Wiktionary
n. A unified federal Islamic government for the Muslim world, ruled by an elected head of state or caliph.
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, who directly succeeded Muhammad as leaders of the Muslim community, were chosen through '' shura, ''a process of community consultation that some consider loosely to be an early form of Islamic democracy. During the history of Islam after the Rashidun period, many Muslim states, almost all of them hereditary monarchies, have claimed to be caliphates. Even though caliphs were thought to go back to Muhammad, they were not thought of as having the same prophetic power as he did.
The Sunni branch of Islam stipulates that, as a head of state, a caliph should be elected by Muslims or their representatives. Followers of Shia Islam, however, believe a caliph should be an Imam chosen by God from the Ahl al-Bayt (the "Family of the House", Muhammad's direct descendants).
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.