Muslim rule
Sultanate or caliphate
Muslim rule refers to political governance by Muslims or under Islamic law, typically in historical contexts: India under Muslim rule, Spain during Muslim rule.
The phrase appears in discussions of medieval caliphates, the Ottoman Empire, or the Mughal dynasty.
In contemporary discourse, it sometimes carries political overtones regarding religious governance or majority-Muslim nations.
- ShariaMuslim religious legal code
- golden agePeriod of peak prosperity
- CaliphateIslamic successor-state realm
- holy warArmed conflict over faith
- FiqhMuslim legal theory
Ijtihad · five pillars · Mughal · Ottoman · Seljuk · Zakat · Sultan · Hajj · Friday prayers · Sufism · Arabic calligraphy
- ToledoAlcazar, Toledo steel, El Greco, historic center, medieval walls
Muslim rulesecular rule
Governance without religious basis
secularism · secular state · separation of church and state · civil government · civil law
Muslim ruleChristendom
Collective Christian world
papal authority · canon law · Holy Roman Empire · Inquisition · theocracy
Muslim rulecolonial rule
Foreign power's territorial dominion
British Raj · European colonialism · Reconquista · Western imperialism
Muslim, Muslims, Islam, Islamic, Islamist, Islamism, rule, rules, ruled