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public office under the
leadership of an
Islamic steward with the
title of
caliph (/ˈkælɪf, ˈkeɪ-/; خَلِيفَةْ khalīfa [xæ'liːfæh], pronunciation), a person...
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Caliphate in the
Abbasid Revolution of 750 CE (132 AH), they
ruled as
caliphs based in modern-day Iraq (Mesopotamia), with
Baghdad being their capital...
- A
caliph is the
supreme religious and
political leader of an
Islamic state known as the caliphate.
Caliphs (also
known as 'Khalifas') led the
Muslim Ummah...
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ruled by the
Umayyad dynasty.
Uthman ibn Affan, the
third of the
Rashidun caliphs, was also a
member of the clan. The
family established dynastic, hereditary...
- romanized: al-Khilāfah ar-Rāšidah) is a
title given for the
reigns of
first caliphs (lit. "successors") — Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman, and Ali
collectively — believed...
- Look up
caliph in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A
caliph is the head of
state in a caliphate, and the
title for the
leader of the
Islamic Ummah, an...
- "shadow of God on Earth" (ظل الله في العالم ẓıll Allāh fī'l-ʿalem) and "
caliph of the face of the earth" (خلیفه روی زمین Ḫalife-i rū-yi zemīn). All offices...
- The
Abbasid caliphs were the
holders of the
Islamic title of
caliph who were
members of the
Abbasid dynasty, a
branch of the
Quraysh tribe descended from...
- 605–April 680) was the
founder and
first caliph of the
Umayyad Caliphate,
ruling from 661
until his death. He
became caliph less than
thirty years after the death...
- it was
ruled as an
emirate until Abd al-Rahman III
adopted the
title of
caliph in 929. The
state was
founded by Abd al-Rahman I, an
Umayyad prince who...
