Emirship

E`mir`ship


n.1.The rank or office of an Emir.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Second, they would become land owners, where they would now introduce their own concepts of emirship and the religion they practice.
"Even though many Omani historians and universities have studied the Emirship of the Keralite ruler in depth and have presented papers in several conferences in the region, it might be for the first time that a paper on Sayyid Fadl is going to be presented in India," Rahmathulla Magribi, the researcher who has prepared the paper, told the Times of Oman.
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Shaikh Sabah Al Ahmed Al Jaber Al Sabah, Amir of Kuwait, in which he congratulated him on the 50th anniversary of Kuwait National Day, the 20th anniversary of the liberation of Kuwait, and the fifth accession anniversary of Sheikh Sabah to the Kuwait emirship.
Accordingly, Yakubu regarded his elevation to the emirship in 1941 in the light of the above instructions and performed to the admiration and satisfaction of the colonial administration which rewarded him with an Honorary CBE in 1951, in addition to the King's Medal for African Chiefs.(13) As a senior emir (ranked fifth in the official Chiefly Order of Precedence after the Sultan of Sokoto, the Shehu of Borno and the emirs of Gwandu and Kano), he also enjoyed automatic membership of the house of chiefs.