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Khutba
The khutba is the sermon delivered at Friday congregational prayer in Islam, in which the name of the recognised ruler was traditionally proclaimed. Inclusion or omission of a ruler's name in the khutba was therefore a public sign of political allegiance. In the decline of the Fatimid Caliphate, Saladin ended the Fatimid khutba in Egypt in 1171 and replaced it with the name of the Abbasid caliph.
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