{"id":7295,"date":"2012-07-22T13:09:35","date_gmt":"2012-07-22T08:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awamipolitics.com\/?p=7295"},"modified":"2012-07-22T05:53:55","modified_gmt":"2012-07-22T00:53:55","slug":"theories-of-the-khilafat-caliphate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.awamipolitics.com\/theories-of-the-khilafat-caliphate-7295.html","title":{"rendered":"Theories of the Khilafat (Caliphate)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As we have said above, Khilafat or Caliphate was the political organisation of the Muslim community under the four Orthodox Caliphs. When the Umayyad dynasty (661-710) came to power in 661 A.D.\/32 A.H., it kept its outward form but changed it into a monarchy. The Caliphal structure remained the same under the Abbasids (750-1258), but with one important change: they upheld the authority of the Shariah. Under the Abbasids, the Caliph remained the political and religious leader of the Muslim Ummah.<\/p>