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Meanings of caliphs in English
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Examples for "caliph"
Examples for "caliph"
1
After this, 'Ala' al-Din remained for some time in the caliph's service.
2
Al-Baghdadi became the declared caliph of the newly renamed Islamic State group.
3
Balsora was the capital of a kingdom long tributary to the caliph.
4
They settled in the Chaldean marshes, assumed independence and defied the caliph.
5
He immediately wrote to the caliph a letter in which he says:
Usage of caliphs in English
1
The two caliphs publicly pray for each other while waging fierce war.
2
Nor did the caliphs extort taxes without giving something in return.
3
To return, then, for a moment, to the downfall of the Ommiade caliphs.
4
A new dynasty came to the throne of the caliphs of Damascus in 750.
5
The caliphs of the West and of Africa imitated their brethren of the East.
6
This, like the ancient standard of the caliphs, was held sacred in its character.
7
The descendants of Mohammed's family refused, however, to recognize the Ommiads as legitimate caliphs.
8
Haroun-al-Raschid (Aaron the Just) was the greatest of all the caliphs of Bagdad.
9
Balsora was many years the capital of a kingdom tributary to the caliphs of Arabia.
10
The Fatimite caliphs had lofty and pretentious claims to the allegiance of the Moslem world.
11
Thus the Fatimite caliphs founded their authority upon a combination of political power and superstition.
12
Great cruelties were practised by the Fatimite caliphs, who conquered Syria about the year 980.
13
Long before the caliphs, the Caesars or even Alexander.
14
With delight the money-caliphs view a situation that they think is relievable while you wait.
15
The caliphs were successful; the grandchildren being slain.
16
The most celebrated of all Mohammedan caliphs was Harun-al-Rashid, which means, in English, Aaron the Just.
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