Sultanates

E334682

Islamic polity form of government monarchy

Sultanates are Muslim-ruled states or territories governed by a sultan, historically prominent across regions such as the Middle East, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Sultanate	1
Sultanates canonical	1

Statements (57)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Islamic polity ⓘ form of government ⓘ monarchy ⓘ
associatedReligion	Islam ⓘ
characteristic	Muslim-ruled state or territory ⓘ centralized authority ⓘ hereditary rulership ⓘ use of Islamic law (sharia) to varying degrees ⓘ
differFrom	caliphates in lacking universal religious leadership claims ⓘ emirates in generally higher rank or larger territorial scope ⓘ
emergedAfter	spread of Islam in the 7th and 8th centuries ⓘ
etymologyFrom	Arabic word sultan meaning authority or power ⓘ
governedByTitle	sultan ⓘ
historicallyProminentIn	Anatolia ⓘ Central Asia ⓘ Horn of Africa ⓘ Middle East ⓘ North Africa ⓘ South Asia ⓘ Southeast Asia ⓘ
legitimizedBy	Islamic religious authority ⓘ
modernExamplesIn	Brunei Darussalam ⓘ surface form: Brunei Malaysia (constituent sultanates) ⓘ Oman ⓘ
notableExample	Delhi Sultanate ⓘ Ottoman Empire ⓘ Aceh Sultanate ⓘ surface form: Sultanate of Aceh Adal Sultanate ⓘ surface form: Sultanate of Adal Bengal Sultanate ⓘ surface form: Sultanate of Bengal Bijapur Sultanate ⓘ surface form: Sultanate of Bijapur Brunei Darussalam ⓘ surface form: Sultanate of Brunei Gowa Sultanate ⓘ surface form: Sultanate of Gowa Gujarat Sultanate ⓘ surface form: Sultanate of Gujarat Sultanate of Ifat ⓘ Johor Sultanate ⓘ surface form: Sultanate of Johor Kilwa Kisiwani ⓘ surface form: Sultanate of Kilwa Malacca Sultanate ⓘ surface form: Sultanate of Malacca Malwa Sultanate ⓘ surface form: Sultanate of Malwa Morocco ⓘ surface form: Sultanate of Morocco Oman ⓘ surface form: Sultanate of Oman Seljuk Sultanate of Rum ⓘ surface form: Sultanate of Rum Sokoto Caliphate ⓘ surface form: Sultanate of Sokoto Sultanate of Sulu ⓘ Sultanate of Ternate ⓘ Sultanate of Tidore ⓘ Yogyakarta Sultanate ⓘ surface form: Sultanate of Yogyakarta Sultanate of Zanzibar ⓘ
oftenInclude	military aristocracy ⓘ religious scholars (ulama) in advisory roles ⓘ royal court bureaucracy ⓘ
oftenSucceeded	caliphate provinces or emirates ⓘ
politicalStructure	monarchical state headed by a sultan ⓘ
relatedConcept	caliphate ⓘ emirate ⓘ kingdom ⓘ
timePeriod	exist from early Islamic centuries to the modern era ⓘ
titleHolder	sultan ⓘ

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Amir → usedInHistoricalPolity → Sultanates ⓘ

Mamluk dynasty of Delhi → governmentForm → Sultanates ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sultanate