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<blockquote data-quote="Parmandur" data-source="post: 9511255" data-attributes="member: 6780330">Soooo, to get into the weeds here, only Shia Muslims belive the Caliph needs to be a Sayyid, die to their belief in an inherited mantle of infallibility. Some other sneliebe the Caliph should be a Hasemite, abroader category than descendent of Muhamed,&nbsp; ut historically a lot of recognized Caliphs are not (the Ottomans, in particular). It really just means the recognized head of the Dar al-Islam.But for Greyhawk, it just means the leader has levels in Cleric, as there is no Islam in Baklun. It isn't specified which Baklunish deity that the Caliph of Ekbir serves in 1980/1983 (open to correction [USER=7023840]@Snarf Zagyg[/USER] ), but I think later it becomes &quot;canonically&quot; Al-Ackbar who was noy on the dwity liat for the box ser, who is an ascended Human (which is kind of Yikes, no wonder it's not in the DMG).I think it is fundamentally a mistake to associate Latitude coordinates with what is being gone for with cultural comparisons here, because again, these are not 1-to-1.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Parmandur, post: 9511255, member: 6780330"] Soooo, to get into the weeds here, only Shia Muslims belive the Caliph needs to be a Sayyid, die to their belief in an inherited mantle of infallibility. Some other sneliebe the Caliph should be a Hasemite, abroader category than descendent of Muhamed, ut historically a lot of recognized Caliphs are not (the Ottomans, in particular). It really just means the recognized head of the Dar al-Islam. But for Greyhawk, it just means the leader has levels in Cleric, as there is no Islam in Baklun. It isn't specified which Baklunish deity that the Caliph of Ekbir serves in 1980/1983 (open to correction [USER=7023840]@Snarf Zagyg[/USER] ), but I think later it becomes "canonically" Al-Ackbar who was noy on the dwity liat for the box ser, who is an ascended Human (which is kind of Yikes, no wonder it's not in the DMG). I think it is fundamentally a mistake to associate Latitude coordinates with what is being gone for with cultural comparisons here, because again, these are not 1-to-1. [/QUOTE]

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