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Meanings of caliphate in English
Islamic form of government, considered a successor state to the realm of Muhammad.
Synonyms
Examples for "arab empire"
Examples for "arab empire"
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The revival of Arab empire was talked of, and names of possible capitals and kings were bandied about.
2
As is well-known throughout the floruit of the Arab empire this province found itself in almost entire independence of the central power.
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The Islamic State has declared an Islamic caliphate in Syria and Iraq.
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JI wanted to establish an Islamic caliphate across Muslim-majority areas of Southeast Asia.
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Their culture was heavily influenced by the Mongols and Islamic caliphates.
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Isis stormed across large areas in Syria and Iraq in 2014, declaring a self-styled Islamic caliphate.
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The militants have captured swathes of territory in the two countries and proclaimed an Islamic caliphate.
Usage of caliphate in English
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The Islamic State has declared an Islamic caliphate in Syria and Iraq.
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The mosque is where Islamic State first declared a 'caliphate' in 2014.
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Could they form the hard-core base, the foundation, of a second caliphate?
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And it can continue to spread fear, even as its caliphate crumbles.
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He then stayed as long he could in its shrinking, self-declared caliphate.
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Jones boasted on social media of her wonderful life under the caliphate.
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The YPG helped the United States smash the Islamic State caliphate in Syria.
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Its aim is to establish a caliphate, or Islamic state, in southern Asia.
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JI wanted to establish an Islamic caliphate across Muslim-majority areas of Southeast Asia.
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Thus the once united caliphate, like the old Roman Empire, split in twain.
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It has declared a caliphate in parts of Iraq and Syria.
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ESCAPE By August, Islamic State's caliphate had shrunk to a few city blocks.
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But the caliphate is not implementing Soviet-style levels of economic control.
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The caliph's Turkish bodyguard was the beginning of the dismemberment of the caliphate.
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Boko Haram wants to carve out a caliphate in northern Nigeria.
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Damascus had been the seat of the Umayyad caliphate, an early Arab-Islamic empire.
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