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Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
Theocracy
Britannica 11thTHEOCRACY (Gr. OeoKparia, the rule of ~ God, from 0e6s, god, and -Kpa.ru>., Kpareiv, to rule), a term applied to a form of government or to a state ruled by such a form of government, in which God or the divine power is looked to as the source of all civil pov ...
Vol. 26, pp. 760-760
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Britannica 11th... ver paid heed to the caliphs, and at length abolished them; but the fall of the theocracy only increased the influence of the clergy, the expounders and practical administrators of that legislation of Koran and Sunna which had become part of the life of the Ma ...
Vol. 26, pp. 103-106
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