Caliph

The carbuncle of Giamschid is one of the treasures sought by the Caliph in Beckford's _Caliph Vathek_.

Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning Robert Browning 1850

The concept of a Caliph is hardly alien to Shia Islam.

Matthew Yglesias » Ignorance is Bliss 2007

Verily the Palace of the Caliph is not a pleasant place for us to live in, and none ever entered it save thyself; and thou only by grace of the Lady Zubaydah.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Flee for thy life, for the Caliph is in the garden to-night and, if he see thee, thy neck is gone.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Fazl bin Rabí‘a, though a man of intelligence and devoted to letters, proved a poor substitute for Yahya and Ja’afar; and the Caliph is reported to have applied to him the couplet: —

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

The word Caliph means the vicar or the successor of the Prophet.

The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 Various

The road to the Caliph is barred by my cousin, Messour, and I can easily tell him the story is untrue.

Hauff's Fairy Tales, Translated and Adapted Cicely Hauff McDonnell 1903

The threat...is best described, I believe, as a politico-legal-military threat whose express purpose is to have it imposed world-wide, subject to a theocratic ruler called a Caliph.

Andrew Reinbach: Sharia Law Threat: Right-Wing Boogeyman Andrew Reinbach 2011

The threat...is best described, I believe, as a politico-legal-military threat whose express purpose is to have it imposed world-wide, subject to a theocratic ruler called a Caliph.

Andrew Reinbach: Sharia Law Threat: Right-Wing Boogeyman Andrew Reinbach 2011

The threat...is best described, I believe, as a politico-legal-military threat whose express purpose is to have it imposed world-wide, subject to a theocratic ruler called a Caliph.

Andrew Reinbach: Sharia Law Threat: Right-Wing Boogeyman Andrew Reinbach 2011