Caliphs is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CALIPHS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• CALIPH, (Arabic) an Eastern ruler, also CALIF, KALIF, KALIPH, KHALIF
• the chief Muslim civil and religious ruler, regarded as the successor of Muhammad. The caliph ruled in Baghdad until 1258 and then in Egypt until the Ottoman conquest of 1517; the title was then held by the Ottoman sultans until it was abolished in 1924 by Atatürk.
• the chief Muslim civil and religious ruler, regarded as the successor of Muhammad. The caliph ruled in Baghdad until 1258 and then in Egypt until the Ottoman conquest of 1517; the title was then held by the Ottoman sultans until it was abolished in 1924 by Atatürk.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a Muslim leader

Words related to CALIPHS

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How to use CALIPHS in a sentence

• This, like the ancient standard of the caliphs, was held sacred in its character.
• The caliphs who succeeded him, for some time, were men of great simplicity, and sought to imitate his virtues.
• Such incidents are common in the oldest records of the first Caliphs.
• The Caliphs prayed before the faithful in the capital, as did the governors in the provinces.
• Under the Ptolemies, in the time of the Caliphs, the pearl-merchant flourished, grew rich, and went to Paradise.
• This country then remained for some time subject to the Caliphs of Bagdad, and was governed by their lieutenants, a set of cruel, arbitrary, and rapacious men.
• Then until the last year of the Eleventh Century, almost four hundred years, the Caliphs ruled the Spanish Peninsula.
• The Ottoman Sultans were also the Caliphs, the leaders of Sunni Islam.
• The descriptions of the splendour at the courts of the Eastern caliphs at Bagdad seem almost incredible.
• The successors of Mohammed, called Caliphs, resolved to propagate the new religion by the sword, and conquered an empire, more extensive than that of the Romans had been.
• These brave, but ferocious warriors, soon wrested the sceptre from the feeble caliphs, and completed the conquest of western Asia.
• But I thought that, with all his air, he had never before set foot on the slippery cobblestones of the City of Too Many Caliphs.
• In those days the Fatimid caliphs ruled over Egypt and some countries of the West, and most of the time the kings of Syria, that is the Saljuqs, were subject to them as well.
• The new town speedily became a place of importance, and was the residence of the naibs, or lieutenants, appointed by the orthodox and Omayyad caliphs.
• The Samarra of history was not much more than a standing camp for caliphs in refuge from their true capital, Baghdad.
• A new dynasty came to the throne of the caliphs of Damascus in 750.
• Thus died the last of the Omeyades, the famous dynasty of Arabian caliphs founded in 660, and established in Spain in 756.
• He would have gone farther and put him to death, but this he dared not do without the caliph’s orders.
• They were left in Spain until they had completed the conquest of that kingdom, then both were ordered to appear before the caliph’s judgment seat.
• And so Musa left the caliph’s presence, heart-broken and disconsolate.
• To the left, the tombs of the caliphs spread themselves over a desert waste, looking, indeed, like a city of the dead.
• The tombs of the Caliphs, successors of Mohammed in temporal and spiritual power, are not far from the Heights.
• But the persecution of the Jews by the Mohammedans was confined to Arabia, for under the empire of the caliphs they suffered no further oppression than the payment of tribute.
• It was thus, after a siege of fifty-three days, that Constantinople, which had defied the power of Chosroes and the caliphs, was irretrievably subdued by the arms of Mahomet II.
• Nor did the caliphs extort taxes without giving something in return.
• Up to 846 all the successive governors had been Arabs, and many of them were related to the caliphs themselves.
• Mysticism finds kindred elements in many faiths, and the Fatimid caliphs soon struck up relations with the local heads of the Christian religion.
• The importance of the canal of Suez to the well-being of these useful subjects of the Arab empire, could not escape the attention of the caliphs.
• Bagdad, until now the proud capital of the caliphs, submitted to his sway.

Similar words containing CALIPH without suffix s

caliph13 caliphal15 caliphate16 caliphates17

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