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The caliphate is a very conflicted issue through the Islamic thought. The prophet peace be upon him did not appoint someone to carry the public responsibility after him. And he did not determine any kind of administration to be followed after him, on the contrary he referred the matter to the Muslim wisdom. Muslims carried out different methods to select the caliph during the period of the first four caliphs. Some chronicle problems appeared as historical problems of caliphate. Some of them are the diversity in selection system, authorities and limitations of the caliph and the committee, selecting the caliph only from candidadets of Quraysh tribe.

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