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- noun Alternative spelling of
caliphate .
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Examples
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Neither dictatorship nor the khalifate was the answer, and with the Arab spring they have begun to demand more of themselves and their rulers.
Sharon Waxman: Remembering 9/11: On the Importance of Intolerance Sharon Waxman 2011
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Neither dictatorship nor the khalifate was the answer, and with the Arab spring they have begun to demand more of themselves and their rulers.
Sharon Waxman: Remembering 9/11: On the Importance of Intolerance Sharon Waxman 2011
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First to Europe, where before 2001 ended I got to argue into the wee hours with Muslims in a working class town about their plans to create a khalifate in England.
Sharon Waxman: Remembering 9/11: On the Importance of Intolerance Sharon Waxman 2011
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Before the dissolution of the Ottoman khalifate, apostasy and other blasphemy laws were rarely spoken of and last practiced back when Americans were still accusing each other and killing as witches in Salem in 1692.
Yursil Kidwai: Blasphemy and 'Sharia' Laws: Legitimizing Corruption and Cognitive Dissonance in Muslim Lands Yursil Kidwai 2011
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Before the dissolution of the Ottoman khalifate, apostasy and other blasphemy laws were rarely spoken of and last practiced back when Americans were still accusing each other and killing as witches in Salem in 1692.
Yursil Kidwai: Blasphemy and 'Sharia' Laws: Legitimizing Corruption and Cognitive Dissonance in Muslim Lands Yursil Kidwai 2011
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First to Europe, where before 2001 ended I got to argue into the wee hours with Muslims in a working class town about their plans to create a khalifate in England.
Sharon Waxman: Remembering 9/11: On the Importance of Intolerance Sharon Waxman 2011
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Muslims don't have a central Islamic leadership in the form of a khalifate, until that is place, there is no country under shariah!
Playing fairer Rachel 2006
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The fall of the Umeyyan khalifate closes the first of the two brilliant periods which illustrate the Arab history of Spain.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 Various
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He was one of the better known poets of the khalifate, and his work may still be found in the original.
Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others Helen M. Winslow
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Three parties, distinguished by their colors, tore the khalifate asunder with their disputes, and disgraced it by their atrocities.
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