emirate
As an emirate ( Arabic إمارة, imāra , plural imārāt ) denotes the domain of an emir . Historically, an emirate is a province administered by a prince . Today, however, there are also Emirates that are sovereign states. A region of Saudi Arabia that is subordinate to an emir is also called an emirate. In Arabic , the term generally refers to a part of the country that is under the control of the ruling class.
The Turkish equivalent is Beylik . The old Turkish title Bey corresponds to an emir .
Historic Emirates
- Emirate of Cordoba
- Emirate of Tbilisi
- Emirate of Granada
- Emirate of Crete
- Emirate of the Samanids of Bukhara (892–1005)
- Emirate of Bukhara
- Emirate of Afghanistan (1823–1926)
- Islamic Emirate Afghanistan (1996-2001)
- Emirate of Bahrain (1971-2002)
Today's Emirates
- The United Arab Emirates is a federal state of seven independent emirates, each of which is ruled by a sheikh or emir.
- Emirate of Qatar
- Emirate of Kuwait
- In northern Nigeria there are still formally numerous emirates, such as the emirate of Kano , the emirate of Ilorin and the emirate of Gwandu .
- Caucasus Emirate , from October 2007 Doku Umarov exclaimed, but not recognized by the international community Islamic state in the Russian North Caucasus . Basically, it is just a virtual emirate whose proclamation was made with the specific aim of motivating Islamic youth to jihad .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tayyib Gökbilgin, R. Le Tourneau Beylik in Encyclopaedia of Islam
- ↑ A list of the traditional states still existing on Nigerian soil today, the rulers of which largely refer to themselves as emir, can be found here: http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Nigeria_native.html
- ↑ See Michael Kemper: "Jihadism: The Discourse of the Caucasus Emirates" in Alfrid K. Bustanov and Michael Kemper (eds.): Islamic Authority and the Russian Language: Studies on Texts from European Russia, the North Caucasus and West Sibiria . Pegasus, Amsterdam, 2012. pp. 265-293. Here pp. 271, 287.