How to Use caliph in a Sentence

caliph

noun

• The fourth caliph, Imam Ali, fought them and killed them.
  — Ed Husain, CNN, 25 May 2017
• One of the rules for choosing a caliph is that he must be descended from the lineage of the prophet.
  — Rukmini Callimachi, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2017
• Fate follows a beggar king, his daughter, a dancer, and the caliph and grand vizier of Baghdad.
  — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2021
• But Hussein was the head of the Hashemite clan, keeper of Islam’s holy places and a man with good claim to the title of caliph, leader of Muslims.
  — Anthony Sattin, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2018
• Some make her the daughter of Muatamid bin Abbad, a wine-drinking caliph descended from the Prophet.
  — The Economist, 5 Apr. 2018
• The caliphate may have lost its caliph; this week brought a new flurry of speculation about the fate of the group’s chieftain, Abu Bakr Baghdadi.
  — Nabih Bulos, latimes.com, 14 July 2017
• Already in 2012, people were living as if Baghdadi was the caliph.
  — Karl Vick, Time, 25 Feb. 2021
• ISIS was rumored to have executed anyone who publicly acknowledged that the caliph was dead — the kind of suicide spiral at the end of such cults.
  — Andrew Doran, National Review, 14 July 2017
• Only men who are descended from the family of the Prophet Muhammad are eligible to be named caliph.
  — Rukmini Callimachi, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2019
• For four centuries, the sultan in Istanbul was also the religious leader, or caliph, of the entire Muslim world.
  — Yaroslav Trofimov, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2018
• That lineage became even more important after 2014, when ISIS declared its caliphate and appointed a caliph.
  — Rukmini Callimachi, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2019
• Hussain had been invited by the inhabitants of Kufa, which was a garrison town near Najaf, to come and lead them in a revolt against the Umayyad caliph in Damascus.
  — Edith Szanto, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2020
• The sultan got to keep the title of caliph, commander of the Sunni Muslim faithful, which his ancestors had acquired four centuries earlier.
  — The Economist, 13 July 2017
• It can be written or recorded as audio or video, but the pledge is supposed to be to addressed to an individual, in this case the caliph of the Islamic State, and not to the organization overall.
  — Rukmini Callimachi, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2017
• For example, Mutawakkil, a caliph of the Abbasid dynasty, which ruled over a vast Islamic empire from the eighth to the 13th century, feared that the rituals inflamed anti-regime fervor.
  — Edith Szanto, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2020
• Hussein led an uprising against the succession of Islam’s new caliph, Yazid, on the basis that his rule was corrupt and unjust, and in Karbala his small force was confronted by Yazid’s massive army and slaughtered.
  — Farnaz Fassihi, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2023
• In accordance with the Mongol prohibition against spilling royal blood, the last caliph with wide acceptance among a majority of Muslims was wrapped in a carpet and trampled to death.
  — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• As khalifa, or caliph, of the Islamic State, Baghdadi never granted an interview to anyone.
  — Ben Wedeman, CNN, 28 Oct. 2019
• Fit for a caliph Glass inlays of clear and purple geometric shapes and multicolored millefiori tiles, along with elaborate mosaics, decorated the walls of the audience chamber at Dar al-Kilafa palace.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 31 Aug. 2018
• One popular story points to personal animus between Hasan and the caliph’s Armenian viziers.
  — Nicholas Liu, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Oct. 2023
• Yet despite being named caliph of an actual territory, Baghdadi never reached bin Laden’s status within the global jihadist movement, and is unlikely ever to do so.
  — Rick Noack, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2017
• That glittering opulence may have been an allusion to the story of King Solomon’s glass palace, but the appearance of al-Mu’tasim’s audience chamber also created a physical manifestation of the caliph’s power.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 31 Aug. 2018
• Mohammed designated no successor (caliph); his squabbling heirs split Islam into rival sects.
  — Lily Rothman, Time, 10 July 2017
• Eventually, Ali did assume leadership of the Muslim community, becoming Islam’s fourth caliph.
  — Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2020

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024