emirship

“Even the Barbary wars were prosecuted using substantial leverage from area mercenaries and a local ruler who wanted US assistance in recapturing his emirship.”

"Our special operations people have been itching to clean them up."

“If I succeed in proving my claim to a title, which is what you would call here an emirship, I shall not return.”

With Kitchener in the Soudan A Story of Atbara and Omdurman