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As a noun, caliph means the political leader of the Muslim world.
Meanings of caliph
2 meaningsnoun
The political leader of the Muslim world; the successor of the prophet Muhammad's political authority.
“The Abbasid caliphs patronized art and science beside religious developments ushering in the Islamic Golden Age when their capital Baghdad began to flourish as a center of knowledge, culture and trade.”
The civil and religious leader of a Muslim state considered to be a representative of Allah on earthperson
“many radical Muslims believe a Khalifah will unite all Islamic lands and people and subjugate the rest of the world”
Similar: calif, kaliph, kalif, khalif, khalifah
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).