English

Noun

sultanship ‎(countable and uncountable, plural sultanships)

1. The office or status of a sultan.
   • 2006, John N. Paden, Muslim Civic Cultures and Conflict Resolution (page 128)

     In essence, he moved the symbolism of the sultanship from an emirate or caliphal base to a national base. Various Muslim circles and conferences outside Nigeria came to regard him as the chief spokesman for Nigerian Muslims.