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n. The office or jurisdiction of a caliph. The last caliphate was held by Ottoman Turkish sultans until it was abolished by Kemal Atatürk in 1924.

n. A unified federal Islamic government for the Muslim world, ruled by an elected head of state or caliph.

n. The office, dignity, or government of a caliph or of the caliphs.

n. the office of a caliph

n. the era of Islam's ascendancy 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

n. the territorial jurisdiction of a caliph

"And while Bush himself has not actually used the term caliphate, he's essentially described it last week when declaring that the terrorists are seeking to establish "a totalitarian Islamic empire that reaches from Indonesia to Spain.""

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