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Khilafat (iou)



Khilafat noun & adjective. E20.
[Persian, Turkish from Arab. ilafa(t) caliphate.]
A. noun. The spiritual and temporal headship of Islam. E20.
b. attrib. or as adjective. Hist. Designating or pertaining to a Muslim movement set up in India in 1919 orig. to champion the claims of the Sultan of Turkey to the Khilafat. E20.