caliphate

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caliphate - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

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

caliphate - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Caliphate
      n 1: 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"
      2: the territorial jurisdiction of a caliph
      3: the office of a caliph