……………… was the land granted to the army officials by the rulers of the Islamic empire of the Caliphate, for limited periods, in lieu of regular salary.

Related MCQs

• The Caliphate rule in the Islamic world stretches over a vast span of time from 632 to 1924, from the death of the Prophet to the year when Mustaffa Kamal Pasha of …………….officially abolished the last Caliphate, the Ottoman Empire and founded the Republic of Turkey.
• After the rule of the pious caliphs, the caliphate was ruled by the Umayyad Caliphate, followed by the……………..
• …………….a relative of Uthman and the governor of Syria captured power of the caliphate after the death of Ali and founded the Umayyad caliphate or the Umayyad dynasty.
• After the decline and fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century, the Eastern Roman empire or the Byzantine Empire with ……………..as its capital was formed which remained for about a thousand years.
• Even before the fall of the ancient Roman Empire in the …………… century, the Byzantine Empire or the Eastern Roman Empire had come into existence.
• In the later period the …………………emperors implemented the ‘Feng-Chien’ system by which trusted officials and imperial relatives were appointed on a permanent basis in the strategic areas of the empire, which in course of time became hereditary.
• The Turks controlled the Arab empire thereafter till the 15th century when the ……………….became the rulers of the Arab territories.
• The …………….granted land to their trusted warriors called the ‘Samurais’.
• In fact Caliphate was the first system of government established in Arabia after the death of the Prophet in ………….. AD.
• …………….transformed the caliphate into a hereditary office.