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  1. Over the period of Moslem
  2. rule, the caliphate, originally
  3. an elected position, was
  4. transformed into a dynastic
  5. system. For four centuries,
  6. various political forces at-
  7. tempted to claim the caliph-
  8. ate. During this time, Jerusa-
  9. lem did not experience dra-
  10. matic rises and falls, but nev-
  11. ertheless changed hands
  12. many times as territory in the
  13. Islamic world shifted between
  14. competing dynasties.
  15.