caliphate English

Meaning caliphate meaning

What does caliphate mean?

caliphate

— noun the territorial jurisdiction of a caliph

— noun the office of a caliph

Caliphate

— noun 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