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Unitary totalitarian theocratic Islamic emirate
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1. Wikipedia: Caliphate
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During the medieval period, three major caliphates succeeded each other: the Rashidun Caliphate (632-661), the Umayyad Caliphate (661-750), and the Abbasid Caliphate (750-1517).
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