Caliphism

Noun

Caliphism (uncountable)

1. The political ideology which favors the re-establishment of a caliphate, a unified Islamic government of the Muslim world.
   • It is evident from history, that this apprent concentration of the insignia of Caliphism round the Ottoman throne, had not been before wanted for the firm establishment of the Sultan; also, that it since has in no wise added the slightest circumstance of sacredness to his right or person.1830 January, Charles Macfarlane, “Travels to and from Constantinople, in the years 1827 and 1828”, in The Edinburgh Review
   • Of all the emotions, impatience is perhaps the easiest to manipulate; and there are all too many people in Iraq to drop a suggestion, here and there, of embezzlement, to hint that the ruling conservatives are following the old, rapacious road of the pashas, and that the time is near for a...1957, Jan Morris, Islam inflamed: a Middle East picture, page 313