Caliphate

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Caliphate \Cal"i*phate\, n. [Cf. F. califat.]
     The office, dignity, or government of a caliph or of the
     caliphs.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  Caliphate
       n 1: the era of Islam's ascendaancy 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: the territorial jurisdiction of a caliph
       3: the office of a caliph