What is a Caliphate?
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06/02/2024 9:12 pm
GLOSSARY
Caliph- the successor to the Prophet Muhammad and was both the religious and political leader of the Muslim world.
Caliphate-the political-religious state comprising the Muslim community and the lands and peoples under its dominion in the centuries following the death (632 ce) of the Prophet Muhammad.
Islam- submission to the will of God
Muslim- a follower of the religion of Islam
prophet-a person regarded as an inspired teacher or proclaimer of the will of God
Sharia- way or law, in Islamic terminology it refers to an abstract immutable divine or religious law that forms part of the Islamic tradition based on scriptures of Islam, particularly the Quran and the Hadith
quasi-divinity- The condition, as of a king etc., of being considered to have some attributes of a god
-Nancy Tallas