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The Arabic title al-Dawla ( الدولة , often rendered ad-Dawla , ad-Daulah , ud-Daulah , Dahola , etc.) means "dynasty" or "state" and appears in many honorific and regnal titles in the Islamic world .1 Invented in the 10th century for senior statesmen of the Abbasid Caliphate , such titles soon spread throughout the Islamic world and provided the model for a broad variety of similar titles with other elements such as al-Din ("Faith").
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The Arabic title al-Dawla appears in many names of leaders. It is not a personal name but the second part of a title that denoted official positions: "dynasty, rule, kingdom". Ibn Khaldun specifies that the honorific was betowed to non-Arabs by the caliphs "indicating their subservience and obedience and their good status as officials" The first element would vary: Wali al-Dawla means "friend of the dynasty", Amid al-Dawla , ""support of the dynasty", Imad al-Dawla ("pillar of the dynasty"). Rulers began to assume and bestow this title in the Near East in the tenth century, and in the eleventh century the styling spread throughout the Mediterranean . Such honorifics became widespread in the taifa kingdoms of Muslim Spain. Today one house of the bicameral Council of State of Oman is the Majlis al-Dawla . In Egypt the State Security Intelligence is the Mabahith Amn al-Dawla al-'Ulya Franz Rosenthal, trans. The Muquaddimah: An Introduction tyo History (Princeton) 1958, I:469, noted in Beech 1993:8, note 23 See the brief account of dawla in George T.
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The Arabic title al-Dawla (الدولة, often rendered ad-Dawla , ad-Daulah , ud-Daulah , Dahola , etc., meaning "dynasty" or "state"), appears in many honorific and regnal titles in the Islamic world .Invented in the 10th century for senior statesmen of the Abbasid Caliphate , these titles soon spread throughout the Islamic world, and provided the model for a broad variety of similar titles with other elements such as al-Din ("Faith").
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Arabic-language title For the use of al-Dawla as the official name of a militant group, see Names of the Islamic State .The Arabic title al-Dawla ( الدولة , often rendered ad-Dawla , ad-Daulah , ud-Daulah , etc.) means 'dynasty' or 'state', (in modern usage, 'government') and appears in many honorific and regnal titles in the Islamic world . Invented in the 10th century for senior statesmen of the Abbasid Caliphate , such titles soon spread throughout the Islamic world and provided the model for a broad variety of similar titles with other elements, such as al-Din ('Faith' or 'Religion').
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Arabic-language title For the use of al-Dawla as the official name of a militant group, see Names of the Islamic State . The Arabic title al-Dawla ( الدولة , often rendered ad-Dawla , ad-Daulah , ud-Daulah , etc.) means 'dynasty' or 'polity', (in modern usage, 'government' or "nation-state") and appears in many honorific and regnal titles in the Islamic world . Invented in the 10th century for senior statesmen of the Abbasid Caliphate , such titles soon spread throughout the Islamic world and provided the model for a broad variety of similar titles with other elements, such as al-Din ('Faith' or 'Religion').
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