Definitions for "Caliphate"
The office, dignity, or government of a caliph or of the caliphs.
Harkens back to a time when one Islamic leader ruled the Muslim world. Islamists wish to return to this state.
the era of Islam's ascendaancy 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"
Keywords:
territorial, jurisdiction
the territorial jurisdiction of a caliph