Caliphate is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CALIPHATE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• (Arabic) the office of caliph, also CALIFATE, KHALIFAT, KHALIFATE, KHILAFAT
• the rule or reign of a caliph or chief Muslim ruler
• the area ruled by a caliph
• office, jurisdiction, or reign of a caliph
• The office, dignity, or government of a caliph or of the caliphs.
• the era of Islam\'s ascendancy from the death of Mohammed until the 13th century; some Moslems still maintain that the Moslem world must always have a calif as head of the community
• the territorial jurisdiction of a caliph
• the office of a caliph
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the office or dominion of a caliph

Words related to CALIPHATE

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Words that contain CALIPHATE

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How to use CALIPHATE in a sentence

• He aimed at the temporal power of a caliph, and soon established a rival caliphate in Africa, where he had obtained a considerable sovereignty.
• The claims of the Egyptian caliphate were heralded throughout all Islam, and its rule was rapidly extended into Syria and Arabia.
• The great revolution which had swept over North Africa, and now spread to Egypt, arose out of the old controversy over the legitimacy of the caliphate.
• They used the claim of the family of Ali, not because they believed in any divine right or any caliphate, but because some flag had to be flourished in order to rouse the people.
• His eldest son Abul-Kasim, who had twice led expeditions into Egypt, succeeded to the caliphate with the title of El-Kaim, 934-946.
• The West was now outwardly quiet, and between Egypt and any hope of succor from the eastern caliphate stood the ravaging armies of the Karmatis.
• The most valuable spoil of their Asiatic conquests was the Caliphate.
• But the wrong notions the Allies still entertain about Caliphate are a sufficient indication of the effects of the work of this official delegation.
• The old caliphate appears in marvellous magnificence and extent from a distance, but unfortunately loses this on nearer approach.
• I first examined the town, but there was not much to see, as there are no remains of the old Caliphate buildings.
• The great ben Saoud, who is a relative of this man, is an Arabian chieftain who has welded most of Arabia into one, and now challenges King Hussein of Mecca for the caliphate.
• By the second and third centuries the Arabs had disappeared as the standing army of the caliphate, or, in other words, as a body set apart for the dissemination of the faith.
• After the establishment of the Caliphate at Bagdad in the eighth century translations of Indian authors became accessible.
• The Commission hath now returned to the seat of the Caliphate, and reports of a most frightful nature are coming in daily from that city.
• Those dealing with the early history of the caliphate are among the best prose that the Arabs have produced.
• The middle of the third century beheld all Israel incorporated into their two communities, under their patriarch and their caliphate.
• In the arrival of Turkish troops in 830 we see a symptom of what was going on all over the eastern caliphate.
• The bulk of the Egyptian Moslems apparently preserved their orthodoxy and suffered an heretical caliphate for two centuries with traditional composure.
• After these two great rulers the Fatimid caliphate subsisted for nearly two centuries by no virtue or energy of its own.
• The Western Caliphate produced physicians and philosophers almost as brilliant as those of the East.

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