califate
Britishnoun
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Triple our troop presence in Iraq and send 10,000 American soldiers to Syria alongside a coalition of Arab allies to prevent the entrenchment of a califate.
From Salon
In the Eastern the savage power of the Mahometan Califate arose, denying at once the redemption of Christ, and the sacrifice in which He had enshrined that redemption, and the divine banquet which ensued upon it.
From Project Gutenberg
Tranquil, intellectual Ahmed Fuad, Sultan of Egypt, Knight Grand Cross of the Bath, extended formal hospitality to the Califate Congress, but entertained no credulous hopes that he is likely to become temporal and spiritual overlord of Islam should the Conference indorse his claims.
From Time Magazine Archive
The new Turkish Republic is the product of a radical transformation and vast reforms, abolition of the Califate separation of the State from religion, unification of education, etc., reforms which only a few years ago the world thought Turkey utterly incapable of achieving.
From Time Magazine Archive
He considers that the Califate* has become corrupt, incompetent�essen tial cause of the backwardness of Islam.
From Time Magazine Archive
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