Recent Examples on the WebThe country’s ruler, the Albanian commander Muhammad Ali, ended Mamluk rule, secured near independence from the Ottoman caliph, and embarked on modernizing the country in an attempt to catch up with the West. Ursula Lindsey, The New York Review of Books, 27 Apr. 2021 Fate follows a beggar king, his daughter, a dancer, and the caliph and grand vizier of Baghdad. Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2021 Already in 2012, people were living as if Baghdadi was the caliph. Karl Vick, Time, 25 Feb. 2021 Hussain had been invited by the inhabitants of Kufa, which was a garrison town near Najaf, to come and lead them in a revolt against the Umayyad caliph in Damascus. Edith Szanto, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2020 Hussain had been invited by the inhabitants of Kufa, which was a garrison town near Najaf, to come and lead them in a revolt against the Umayyad caliph in Damascus. Edith Szanto, chicagotribune.com, 9 Sep. 2020 For example, Mutawakkil, a caliph of the Abbasid dynasty, which ruled over a vast Islamic empire from the eighth to the 13th century, feared that the rituals inflamed anti-regime fervor. Edith Szanto, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2020 For example, Mutawakkil, a caliph of the Abbasid dynasty, which ruled over a vast Islamic empire from the eighth to the 13th century, feared that the rituals inflamed anti-regime fervor. Edith Szanto, chicagotribune.com, 9 Sep. 2020 The meaning of the new nom de guerre was not lost on his future followers: Abu Bakr was the first caliph after the Prophet Muhammad’s death in ancient Arabia and is credited with the wave of Islamic expansion that followed. Rukmini Callimachi, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2019 See More
Word History
Etymology
Middle English caliphe, from Middle French calife, from Arabic khalīfa successor