Caliph

Definitions

1. The holder of a monarchical title based on a claim to be a successor of Muhammad.
2. Alternative letter-case form of caliph.
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Examples

“The Abbasid caliphs patronized art and science beside religious developments ushering in the Islamic Golden Age when their capital Baghdad began to flourish as a center of knowledge, culture and trade⟳.”

“It carries us to the East, and the stately halls of the caliphs rise⟳ on the mind's eye; and we think⟳ over the thousand and one stories which made our childhood so happy, and stored up a world of unconscious poetry for our future years:...”

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