| None of the Sunni caliphates or imamates and Shi'ite imamates has succeeded. |
| The Umayyad Caliphate was one of the four major caliphates established following the death of Muhammad. |
| The distribution of the Arabic and Turkic languages, in turn, are a legacy of the Caliphates and the Turkic Khaganate, respectively. |
| And the staying fanatic Muslims are racing against each other to revive ancient and mostly failed theocracies, be they Shi'ite imamates or Sunni caliphates. |
| We don t hear much about their rhetoric, talk about caliphates inside Iraq. |
| There were five caliphates under different dynasties until Turkey's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk abolished the last of them early last century. |
