Assertion: caliphate | /r/CapableOf | recognize successor
Facets:
value: to ali
type: OTHER
value: as authorities
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Rather they recognized only the successors to 'Ali as authorities, and they gave these successors the title Imam, or spiritual leader of Islam, both to differentiate their leaders from the more worldly and secular Umayyads and because Abu Muhammed Hasan ibn 'Ali, the second Imam, ceded the Caliphate to the Umayyads.