In these times, to be called a caliph you must have money.    From Wordnik.com.  [Strictly business: more stories of the four million] Reference

'Effendi, do you think that a man can conquer Syria, who is not called a caliph?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches] Reference

I swear that I stealthily crept to the computer and looked up the site of this (Shiite) Imam, this so called caliph in his land.    From Wordnik.com.  [Palestine Blogs aggregator] Reference

The reigning caliph, Valid the First, despatched into Egypt.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Moors of Spain] Reference

Aboul-Abbas, the nephew of Abdalla, supplanted the former caliph.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Moors of Spain] Reference

The Arab city, the old or round city of Bagdad, was founded by the caliph.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

Master of entire Spain, from Catalonia to the two seas, the first caliph died A.D.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Moors of Spain] Reference

Saracens as to the magnanimity of the caliph and the trusting confidence of Sancho.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Moors of Spain] Reference

A poor woman of Zahra possessed a small field contiguous to the gardens of the caliph.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Moors of Spain] Reference

Every father possessed, under his own roof, rights nearly equal to those of the caliph.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Moors of Spain] Reference

The caliph cheerfully consented to this desire, and the cadi filled his sack with the earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Moors of Spain] Reference

“Friend, ” said the caliph, “the barber has words on his side -- you have equity on yours.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan] Reference

He turned pale, standing before her with the wall light shining upon his face of a young caliph.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sacrifice] Reference

After the Prophet Muhammad died in 632 A.D., his father-in-law, Abu Bakr, became the first caliph.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cali who?] Reference

This caliph, the ninth of the Ommiades, ended his existence in a manner that at least merits pity.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Moors of Spain] Reference

‘The wood-cutter immediately went to the caliph, was admitted to his presence, and related his case.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan] Reference

My heart sang with joy when I heard of the caliph, successor of that false prophet, trampled by Tartar horses.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference

One of the relations of the caliph took up arms against him, and possessed himself of the person of the monarch.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Moors of Spain] Reference

The pagans were emboldened by the sight of the three alone, and the caliph, rushing at Oliver, pierced him from behind with his lance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race] Reference

There existed in the dominions of the caliph eighty great cities, three hundred of the second order, and an infinite number of smaller towns.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Moors of Spain] Reference

France, and there Ganelon found him, and delivered the tribute, the keys of Saragossa, and a false message excusing the absence of the caliph.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race] Reference

Every year on Ashura, millions of Shias around the world celebrate Imam Hussein's battle against Yazid, the oppressive seventh-century caliph.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ayatollah’s Inspiration] Reference

On one side of these was represented the head of the reigning caliph, and on the other appeared his name, with some passages from the Alcoran.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Moors of Spain] Reference

“You may say right, ” said the caliph: “but, at the same time, who ever thought of insisting upon a pack-saddle being included in a load of wood?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan] Reference

Spain, as has been seen, was the first distant province of the Arabian empire which succeeded in separating itself and setting up an independent caliph.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Moors of Spain] Reference

Amrou, as a man of genius and learning, may have grieved at the order of the caliph, while, as a loyal subject and faithful soldier, he felt bound to obey.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference

As Adhed, the last caliph of Egypt, was dying in the mosque of Cairo, these generals proclaimed Morthadi, the thirty-third caliph of Bagdad, as his successor.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Moors of Spain] Reference

Giaffar, the Bermacide, at that time the principal vizier of the caliph, entreated the poet Abbas-ben-Ahnaf to compose some verses on the subject of this quarrel.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Moors of Spain] Reference

They contended that their grandfather had made Abbubaker caliph because he was old and faithful, and therefore that that office should not descend to his children.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modern Persia] Reference