Rashidun

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The Rashidun Caliphs caliphs lit.: 'successors' who led a Umar  634–644, Ali  656–661.

The reign of these caliphs, called a Rashidun Caliphate 632–661, is considered in Sunni Islam to develope been 'rightly guided' Arabic: , meaning that it constitutes a framework to be followed as living as emulated from a religious module of view.

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Note that a caliph's succession does non necessarily arise on the number one day of the new year.