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A caliphate (Arabic: خِلَافَةْ, romanized: khilāfah) is an institution or public office under the leadership of an Islamic steward with the title of caliph [1] [2] [3] (/ ˈ k æ l ɪ f, ˈ k eɪ-/; خَلِيفَةْ khalīfa [xæ'liːfæh], pronunciation ⓘ), a person considered a political–religious successor to the Islamic prophet Muhammad and a leader of the entire Muslim ...
A caliph is the supreme religious and political leader of an Islamic state known as the caliphate. [1] [2] Caliphs (also known as 'Khalifas') led the Muslim Ummah as political successors to the Islamic prophet Muhammad, [3] and widely-recognised caliphates have existed in various forms for most of Islamic history.
The Barmakid family was an early supporter of the Abbasid revolt against the Umayyads and of As-Saffah.This gave Khalid bin Barmak considerable influence, and his son Yahya ibn Khalid (d. 806) was the vizier of the caliph al-Mahdi (ruled 775–785) and tutor of Harun al-Rashid (ruled 786–809).
A caliphate is an Islamic state ruled by a caliph. Caliphate may also refer to: Caliphate, a Swedish drama television series; Caliphate, a podcast produced by The New York Times; The Caliphate, by William Muir; Caliphate State, a Turkish Islamist group based in Cologne, Germany
The Khilaafat (or Caliphate) was then contested and gave rise to the eventual division of the Islamic Umma into two groups, the Sunni and the Shi'a who interpret the word Khalifa in differently nuanced ways. The earliest Islamic uses include 'Khaleefa(ḥ)' in The Qur'an, 2:30, where God commands the angels to bow down to Adam) [1] with reverence.
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Ghilman in the Abbasid Caliphate fought primarily as a mounted strike force whose purpose was to weaken the enemy with swift and rapid attacks before allied infantry were sent into battle. They carried a lance that could be used to impale enemy infantry easily and a round wooden shield that had been reinforced with either animal skin or thin ...
In early 1915, the French secretary-general Felix Gaillard proposed the proclamation of a Moroccan Caliphate. [2] The idea was that a caliphate under direct French control could counteract the threat of religious influence over France's Muslim subjects by the Ottomans or British, [1] and could further serve to ideologically control the Muslim population of the French colonial empire, [1 ...