5 sentences with 'caliphate'
Example sentences and phrases with the word caliphate and other words derived from it.
• « Ali was assassinated by a rebel (unrelated to the struggle for power over the caliphate) in 661, which consolidated the Umayyad claim to power, but not the doctrinal dispute between Shia and Sunni. »
• « For the first time, the caliphate signed a peace treaty with a non-Muslim state; this was an important precedent because it established the idea that a Muslim state could recognise the political legitimacy of a non-Muslim one. »
• « Thereafter, the Umayyad caliphate came to deal with non-Muslim powers primarily in terms of normal diplomacy and not through the lens of holy war. »
• « The Second Crusade consisted of two crusades that occurred simultaneously: some European knights sailed to the Holy Land, while others fought against the Cordovan caliphate in the Iberian Peninsula. »
• « By the time the last Abbasid caliph was killed by the Mongols in 1258, the caliphate itself had long degenerated into a legal fiction. »