caliph
The holder of a monarchical title based on a claim to be a successor of Muhammad.
Example
“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.”
Related words
- Klaliff
- anticaliph
- Calipha
- Caliphess
- caliphdom
- caliphhood
- Caliphist
- Caliphism
- caliphal
- caliphian
- caliphate
- caliphship
Word history
From Arabic "خَلِيفَة".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “caliph” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.