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/ˈkeɪlɪf/ · 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.
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 up a world of unconscious poetry for our future years:...
Use caliph when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Caliph means The holder of a monarchical title based on a claim to be a successor of Muhammad..
Common synonyms include calif, kaliph, kalif, khalif.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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