The moderate party distinguished itself from the other Moslems only by their doctrine that the imamate belonged legally to a man of the house of the Prophet.
Walid was the first caliph, born and trained as prince, who felt the majesty of the imamate and wished it to be felt by his subjects.
The lesser Imamate is the leadership in the Friday prayers.
Moizz must prove his title to the holy imamate inherited from Ali, to the satisfaction of these experts in genealogy.
Imamites who held to theimamate of Musa ibn Ja'far, who was imprisoned by Harun al-Rashid and poisoned.
Zaidites, followers of Suleiman ibn Jarir, who held that the appointment to the imamate was a matter of consultation and that the imamates of Abu Bekr and Omar were legal although 'Ali had a better claim.
Kaisanites of Khorasan at the time of Abu Muslim, to whom they ascribed the imamate and the Spirit of God.
Imamites who carry the imamateno farther than Ja'far us-Sadiq.
Ghaliites, followers of Mughira ibn Sa'id ul-'Ijli, who claimed the imamate and prophetic office and held extremely gross views of God.
Kaisanites, followers of Bunan ibn Sim'an un-Nahdi, who claimed that the imamate passed from Abu Hashim to himself and that he had also acquired the divine element of 'Ali.
Shi'ites of the Imamite class, who ascribe the imamate to 'Abdallah ul-Aftahi, the son of Sadiq.
Soon there came to the throne a Fatimide who repaired what his ancestors had in their indulgence neglected, and preached the doctrines of the divine Imamate with bloody fanaticism.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "imamate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
