OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 6782

caliph

/ˈkeɪlɪf/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
califa
The holder of a monarchical title based on a claim to be a successor of Muhammad.
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…
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 knowledg…
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