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Encyclopedia > Four Righteously Guided Caliphs
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The Four Rightly Guided Caliphs (Urdu: خلفأے راشدین, khalifa-e-rashidoon) refers to the first four caliphs in the Sunni tradition of Islam who are seen as being model leaders. They were all close companions of Muhammad, and their succession was not hereditary, something that would become a hallmark of later caliphates. Jump to: navigation, search Urdu (اردو) is an Indo-European language of the Indo-Aryan family which developed under Persian influence in the Indian subcontinent during the time of the Delhi Sultanate and Mughal Empire. ... Anglicized/Latinized version of the Arabic word خليفة or Khalifah, is the term or title for the Islamic leader of the Ummah, or community of Islam. ... Sunni Islam (Arabic سنّة) is the largest denomination of Islam. ... Jump to: navigation, search Muhammad is a common Muslim male name. ...


The caliphat not going through Ali is considered an abomination in Shia Islamic theology, since they conclude that Muhammad ordered so on countless events.

In Ibadhi tradition, only the first two are considered to be the 'Two Rightly Guided Caliphs. Abu Bakr As Siddiq (Arabic ابو بكر الصديق, alternative spellings, Abubakar, Abi Bakr, Abu Bakar) (c. ... For other uses of the name, see Umar (disambiguation). ... Leave this page if youre under 18!! - Page contains huge lies and hardly has any facts > it will surely misguide you! Uthman ibn Affan (Arabic: عثمان بن عفان) (c. ... Ali ibn Abu Talib (Arabic: ) (c. ... Al-Ibadhiyah is a form of Islam distinct from the Shiite and Sunni sects. ...


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Caliph is the term or title for the Islamic leader of the Ummah Ummah (أمة) is an Arabic word that means "community" or nation.
the power of the caliphate under the Abassids was waning as non-Arabs, particularly the Turkish (and later the Mamluks in Egypt in the latter half of the 13th century), gained influence, and sultans A sultan (Arabic: سلطان) is an Islamic title, with several historical meanings.
Initially covering Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya, the Fatimid caliphs extended their rule for the next 150 years, taking Egypt and Palestine, before the Abbassid dynasty was able to turn the tide, limiting the Fatimids to rule to Egypt.
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