caliphate

caliphate has 4 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 9.

Definitions

• n.. The office, dignity, or government of a caliph or of the caliphs.
• n.. the office of a caliph
• n.. the territorial jurisdiction 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; "their goal was to reestablish the Caliphate"