ALL meanings of caliph
ca·liph
C c - countable noun caliph A Caliph was a Muslim ruler. 3
- noun caliph the title of the successors of Mohammed as rulers of the Islamic world, later assumed by the Sultans of Turkey 3
- noun caliph supreme ruler: the title taken by Mohammed's successors as secular and religious heads of Islam 3
- noun caliph 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. 1
- noun caliph a spiritual leader of Islam, claiming succession from Muhammad. 1
- noun caliph any of the former Muslim rulers of Baghdad (until 1258) and of the Ottoman Empire (from 1571 until 1924). 1
- noun caliph Muslim leader 1
- noun caliph The political leader of the Muslim world, successor of Muhammad's political authority, not religious or spiritual. 0