"caliphate" in the noun sense
1. Caliphate
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
"their goal was to reestablish the Caliphate"
2. caliphate
the territorial jurisdiction of a caliph
3. caliphate
the office of a caliph
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