noun. The office of an imam.

noun. The office or function of an imam; the califate.

noun. The office or jurisdiction of an imam.

"The very first Islamic schism between the Sunni's literally-deist absolutism, and the anthropomorphic rationalism based on the imamate and the cult of saints in the Shiism, had its early beginnings in Egypt."

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