Search Result:caliphate
KK Pronunciation
〔 ˋkælIˏfet,-fIt 〕
Pronunciation
〔 ˊkælifeit 〕
Overview of noun caliphate
The noun caliphate has 3 senses
- 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")
- caliphate -- (the territorial jurisdiction of a caliph)
- caliphate -- (the office of a caliph)