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The 34 pages that link to Caliphate, each with the reason it gives.

• Islamic StateBroader topic: Its 2014 declaration framed territorial rule as restoration of a caliphate.

• First FitnaNarrower topic: Competing claims to this office lay at the heart of the conflict.

• Abu BakrNarrower topic: Abu Bakr’s office became an early model in later debates about Islamic political authority.

• Abbasid RevolutionNarrower topic: The revolution transferred this office from one ruling dynasty to another.

• Ali ibn Abi TalibNarrower topic: Ali’s rule is counted as a caliphate in Sunni accounts, though traditions differ on its legitimacy and meaning.

• Ali ibn Abi TalibNarrower topic: Ali ruled as the fourth caliph, though traditions differ on the meaning of that office.

• Almohad CaliphateNarrower topic: The Almohad ruler claimed caliphal authority, not merely regional kingship.

• Sokoto CaliphateNarrower topic: The Sokoto state organized its political authority around a caliph.

• Succession to MuhammadNarrower topic: The dispute concerned who could legitimately hold this office.

• Pan-IslamismRelated: Proposals for unified Muslim leadership have often centered on restoring or reimagining this institution.

• Bay'ahRelated: Bay'ah has historically been used to recognize a caliph's authority.

• KharijitesRelated: Kharijite debates centered on who could legitimately hold this authority.

• UmmahRelated: The caliphate historically presented itself as political leadership of the ummah.

• EmirateRelated: Emirs often governed provinces or territories within caliphates.

• SultanRelated: Sultans often held temporal power alongside caliphs, whose claims centered on broader religious and communal leadership.

• Ottoman–Safavid relationsRelated: Ottoman claims to caliphal authority sharpened competition over leadership of the wider Muslim world.

• ShuraNarrower topic: Shura has often been discussed as a principle for selecting or advising caliphs.

• Abolition of the Ottoman sultanateRelated: The assembly treated the caliphate as separable from the sultanate and left it temporarily intact.

• Abd Allah ibn al-ZubayrNarrower topic: His revolt contested who held the caliphate after the early community’s succession disputes.

• Rashid RidaRelated: Rida’s post-1924 writings proposed a reformed caliphate as a source of Muslim political unity.

• SaqifahNarrower topic: Saqifah established the first caliphate succession after Muhammad.

• Abd al-Rahman IIINarrower topic: His title asserted a claim to leadership beyond the Iberian peninsula.

• Early Muslim communityNarrower topic: The early community’s political succession became the prototype for later caliphates.

• Leo III the IsaurianNarrower topic: The Umayyad power Leo resisted was one instance of this broader political institution.

• Abolition of the Ottoman caliphateNarrower topic: The law abolished the Ottoman-held form of this institution, not the idea everywhere.

• Abu Bakr al-BaghdadiRelated: His 2014 declaration presented the Islamic State as a restored caliphate.

• Ottoman CaliphateNarrower topic: The Ottoman institution was one historically specific claim within the broader history of caliphates.

• Sunni–Shia relationsRelated: Historical claims to the caliphate shaped rival accounts of legitimate rule and communal authority.

• ImamateCompared with: The caliphate is a distinct model of succession, though Sunni and Shia histories connect it to debates about imamate.

• Mehmed VICompared with: The caliphal title survived Mehmed VI’s deposition briefly under a different Ottoman prince.

• SultanateCompared with: Sultans often held practical power while caliphs retained religious or symbolic claims to leadership.

• Hizb ut-TahrirNarrower topic: The organization’s central political goal is to restore this form of rule.

• History of IslamNarrower topic: Caliphal rule linked political authority to the expanding Muslim community.

• IbadismRelated: Early disputes over legitimate leadership formed part of the setting in which Ibadism emerged.