imamate
noun
imam·ate
i-ˈmä-ˌmāt 
ē-,
-ˈma-
often capitalized
1
: the office of an imam
2
: the region or country ruled over by an imam
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Yemen was ruled by a Zaydi imamate for 1,000 years, until it was overthrown in 1962.
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Alexander Smith, NBC News, 4 Feb. 2024
That conflict pitted Cairo’s modern Army against determined tribesmen, the forefathers of the Houthis, who resented the intrusion of a foreign power and wanted a return to the imamate.
—Nicolas Niarchos, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2024
The subsequent rift ran across the entire Ismaili community, with the Persian branch under Hasan’s leadership upholding Nizar’s rights to the imamate.
—Nicholas Liu, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Oct. 2023
In 1962, Yemeni revolutionaries overthrew the country’s centuries-old Zaydi Shia imamate to found the Yemen Arab Republic, an Arab Nationalist state, in the northwestern half of present-day Yemen.
—Asher Orkaby, Foreign Affairs, 11 July 2023
Wednesday, a Montgomery County Jail jail imamate who was being treated at Miami Valley hospital was able to get the security guard's weapon.
—Brook Endale, The Enquirer, 2 June 2022
The imamate was previously incarcerated at the MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution.
—Seamus McAvoy, courant.com, 24 Nov. 2021
Their aim was to stop the northern imamate, which followed a Shia version of Islam known as Zaydi, from encroaching.
—The Economist, 1 Feb. 2018
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Alexander Smith, NBC News, 4 Feb. 2024
That conflict pitted Cairo’s modern Army against determined tribesmen, the forefathers of the Houthis, who resented the intrusion of a foreign power and wanted a return to the imamate.
—Nicolas Niarchos, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2024
The subsequent rift ran across the entire Ismaili community, with the Persian branch under Hasan’s leadership upholding Nizar’s rights to the imamate.
—Nicholas Liu, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Oct. 2023
In 1962, Yemeni revolutionaries overthrew the country’s centuries-old Zaydi Shia imamate to found the Yemen Arab Republic, an Arab Nationalist state, in the northwestern half of present-day Yemen.
—Asher Orkaby, Foreign Affairs, 11 July 2023
Wednesday, a Montgomery County Jail jail imamate who was being treated at Miami Valley hospital was able to get the security guard's weapon.
—Brook Endale, The Enquirer, 2 June 2022
The imamate was previously incarcerated at the MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution.
—Seamus McAvoy, courant.com, 24 Nov. 2021
Their aim was to stop the northern imamate, which followed a Shia version of Islam known as Zaydi, from encroaching.
—The Economist, 1 Feb. 2018
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“Imamate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/imamate. Accessed 29 May. 2025.
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