Caliphate

(noun.) the office of a caliph.

(noun.) the territorial jurisdiction of a caliph.

(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'.

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• In the time of Harun Al-Rashid (800 A.D) and his son, the Caliphate of Bagdad was the center of Arab science. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• In Egypt, the last Abbasid Caliph was living under the protection of the Mameluke Sultan--for the Fatimite caliphate was a thing of the past. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He turned his arms against the caliphate and captured Bagdad, in which city he perpetrated a massacre of the entire population. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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