-
civil wars,
sectarian conflicts, and
parallel regional caliphates. Historically, the
caliphates were
polities based on
Islam which developed into multi-ethnic...
- its
original military forces. The Shi'a
opposed the
Umayyad and
Abbasid caliphates, whom they
considered usurpers. Instead, they
believed in the exclusive...
-
trend of
weakening of the
central power and
strengthening of the
minor caliphates on the
periphery continued. An
exception was the 10-year
period of Al-Mu'tadid's...
- The
caliphate of the
Ottoman Empire (Ottoman Turkish: خلافت مقامى, romanized: hilâfet makamı, lit. 'office of the
caliphate') was the
claim of the heads...
- AD 643/23 AH.
After 661, a
series of
judges served in
Egypt during the
caliphates of
Hisham and
Walid II. The
Diwan of Umar, ****igning
annuities to all...
- The
Ottoman Caliphate, the world's last
widely recognized caliphate, was
abolished on 3
March 1924 (27
Rajab AH 1342) by
decree of the
Grand National...
- The
Sokoto Caliphate (Arabic: دولة الخلافة في بلاد السودان), also
known as the
Sultanate of Sokoto, was a ****
Muslim caliphate in West Africa. It was...
-
known as the
caliphate.
Caliphs led the
Muslim Ummah as
political successors to the
Islamic prophet Muhammad, and widely-recognised
caliphates have existed...
-
Conquests (1981),
argues that the
standard Arabian practice during the
early Caliphates was for the
prominent men of a
kinship group, or tribe, to
gather after...
-
green was the
color of the
Umayyads and
white that of the Almohads, the
caliphates which represented periods of "greatness and power" in this region. The...
