(n.) Successor or vicar; -- a title of the successors of Mohammed both as temporal and spiritual rulers, now used by the sultans of Turkey.
Example Sentences:
(1) Chapter one Announcement of the Islamic Caliphate The announcement of the renewal of the caliphate in Iraq in the year 1427AH [2006] was the arbiter between division and separation as well as the glory of the Muslims.
(2) The militants have also seized a huge chunk of territory straddling the Iraq-Syria border, and have declared a self-styled caliphate in the territory they control.
(3) [Note: This is a reference to the end of the Ottoman caliphate in 1924].
(4) A year after the establishment of the so-called caliphate by Islamic State , western governments are struggling for strategies to challenge sympathy among their citizens towards the militants.
(5) The Russian official warned about the formation of an Islamic caliphate in Iraq, which was in the process of disintegrating; he warned that this caliphate would try to take control of the Middle East and, from there, would send its long arms northward, via the Islamic former Soviet republics.
(6) Wednesday’s atrocities will be set against the backdrop of the anticipated collapse of Isis’s self-declared caliphate, as Iranian-backed Iraqi and Syrian army forces, plus US and British-backed Kurdish militias, close in on its Mosul and Raqqa strongholds.
(7) The elusive Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi , who on 29 June proclaimed a "caliphate" straddling Syria and Iraq, made his appeal in a sermon delivered on Friday, in the militant-held northern Iraqi city of Mosul.
(8) Neither is it clear that the Cyber Caliphate has a relationship with Isis, which does not use that English shorthand to refer to itself.
(9) Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi , the group’s Iraqi “caliph”, mentioned the north African country in a boastful speech he made last November.
(10) Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon , Chad and Benin agreed at the weekend to send a joint force of 8,700 troops to fight the group, which has killed thousands of people and kidnapped hundreds more in its bid to carve out a caliphate.
(11) The three strikes came almost exactly on the first anniversary of Islamic State’s declaration of its caliphate, and it is possible they were coordinated.
(12) In what is a tribal-based society, the population is largely immune to calls to join a worldwide caliphate.
(13) Oil products It is not allowed for a person who has no pledge of allegiance on his neck to the caliph to invest in an oil or gas field or what has arisen from their trajectory, but it is allowed besides that to produce derivatives after buying the crude products from the fields of the Islamic State, just as it is allowed to sell and deal in them inside and outside the state.
(14) Europe is suffering for a variety of reasons, but most importantly as a result of the Syrian civil war, which has allowed Isis to grow and set up its self-proclaimed “caliphate” .
(15) And to use this term is to dignify a death cult, a death cult that in declaring itself a caliphate has declared war on the world.” Abbott said more than 60 Australians were believed to be fighting with Isis and Al-Nusra and “more than 60 Australians have had their passports suspended to prevent them from joining terrorist groups in the Middle East”.
(16) Supporters in favour of a less confrontational approach say that Isis needs this stunning progress to continue if it is to make good its goal of re-establishing a caliphate across ancient Islamic lands.
(17) However, the caliphate declaration will be seen in political rather than theological terms.
(18) Terrorists driven by a desire to "create a caliphate" of sharia law in the middle east continued to plot attacks.
(19) Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-proclaimed Caliph of Isis, is the object of plain ridicule.
(20) Women have been called to join Isis by the “caliph”, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi , himself, and are offered an important and active role in society.