caliph
pronunciation
How to pronounce caliph in British English:
UK [ˈkeɪlɪf]
How to pronounce caliph in American English:
US [ˈkelɪf, ˈkælɪf]
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- Noun:
- the civil and religious leader of a Muslim state considered to be a representative of Allah on earth
Word Origin
- caliph (n.)
- late 14c., from Old French caliphe (12c., also algalife), from Medieval Latin califa, from Arabic khalifa "successor," originally Abu-Bakr, who succeeded Muhammad in the role of leader of the faithful after the prophet's death.
Example
- 1. When young egyptians crowded into cairo 's tahrir square , they wanted rights , not a caliph .
- 2. Another relevant text is the story of ali , the fourth muslim caliph , whose leadership was challenged by a rival .
- 3. It produced metin kaplan , a militant cleric known as " caliph of cologne " , who was convicted of incitement to crime and extradited to turkey in 2004 .
- 4. Occasionally a king of china will wander through the stories , or a zoroastrian magus , or the greatest caliph of them all , haroun al-rashid , slumming incognito in the streets of baghdad .
- 5. If it had not been for a paris-based rothschild ( I think his name was edmond ) approaching the then caliph , asking him to sell him land in palestine so russian jews could settle there and till the land , the problem we have now would not have been there .