EGAVE

caliph

About 1.26 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The holder of a monarchical title based on a claim to be a successor of Muhammad.
    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.

Similar words

calif kalif khalif kaliph omar uthman imam fatimite hashem khalifa

Often followed by

of al and was in omar to had harun

Word family

calif califs caliphal caliphs

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