English-French translations for caliphate

• califat
  La situation est grave. Nous sommes presque sur le point de recréer un Califat islamique. The situation is grave; we are almost engaged in the process of recreating an Islamic Caliphate.
  Leur idéologie est diamétralement opposée aux démocraties conventionnelles et leur but est de créer un califat. Their ideology is diametrically opposed to conventional democracies and their aim is to create a caliphate.
  Sa charte laisse en effet entendre qu’il plaide en faveur d’un djihad général, en ce compris des attentats-suicides, et de l’institution d’une théocratie et d’un califat islamique partout. Indeed, its charter suggests it is committed to global Jihad, including using suicide bombers and establishing a theocracy and an Islamic caliphate everywhere.

Definition of caliphate

• A unified Islamic government for the Muslim world, ruled by a caliph

Related words

• Caliphist
• Caliphism