Assertion: caliph | /r/HasAspect | no power
Facets:
value: in law making
type: LOCATION
value: except as a nominal figurehead
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: The Caliph has no power or position except as a nominal figurehead.
text: Uthman had "already inaugurated a nepotistic style of government", for which later Caliphs were condemned, and wonders if the idea of a divinely guided "golden age" of early Islam came from a need by late Umayyad and Abassid religious scholars to differentiate the first caliphs (who had more power in law making) and the contemporary Caliphs who they wanted to defer to them (the ulama) in religious matters.