Definition of Caliph. Meaning of Caliph. Synonyms of Caliph

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Definition of Caliph

Caliph
Caliph Ca"liph, n. [OE. caliphe, califfe, F. calife (cf. Sp. califa), fr. Ar. khal[=i]fan successor, fr. khalafa to succed.] Successor or vicar; -- a title of the successors of Mohammed both as temporal and spiritual rulers, now used by the sultans of Turkey. [Written also calif.]

Meaning of Caliph from wikipedia

- public office under the leadership of an Islamic steward with the title of caliph (/ˈkælɪf, ˈkeɪ-/; خَلِيفَةْ khalīfa [xæ'liːfæh], pronunciation), a person...
- Caliphate in the Abbasid Revolution of 750 CE (132 AH), they ruled as caliphs based in modern-day Iraq (Mesopotamia), with Baghdad being their capital...
- A caliph is the supreme religious and political leader of an Islamic state known as the caliphate. Caliphs (also known as 'Khalifas') led the Muslim Ummah...
- successive caliphs (lit. "successors") — Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman, and Ali, collectively known as the Rashidun, or "Rightly Guided" caliphs (الْخُلَفاءُ...
- ruled by the Umayyad dynasty. Uthman ibn Affan, the third of the Rashidun caliphs, was also a member of the clan. The family established dynastic, hereditary...
- Look up caliph in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A caliph is the head of state in a caliphate, and the title for the leader of the Islamic Ummah, an...
- 605–April 680) was the founder and first caliph of the Umayyad Caliphate, ruling from 661 until his death. He became caliph less than thirty years after the death...
- it was ruled as an emirate until Abd al-Rahman III adopted the title of caliph in 929. The state was founded by Abd al-Rahman I, an Umayyad prince who...
- Ottoman Empire, to be the caliphs of Islam in the late medieval and early modern era. Ottoman rulers first ****umed the style of caliph in the 14th century,...
- "shadow of God on Earth" (ظل الله في العالم ẓıll Allāh fī'l-ʿalem) and "caliph of the face of the earth" (خلیفه روی زمین Ḫalife-i rū-yi zemīn). All offices...