D defs.my
Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Caliph

/(kā"lĭf)/ · Ca·liph · IPA /ˈkeɪlɪf/
01 n. Successor or vicar; the civil and religious leader of a Muslim state; -- a title of the successors of Mohammed both as temporal and spiritu…
  1. 1.
    Successor or vicar; the civil and religious leader of a Muslim state; -- a title of the successors of Mohammed both as temporal and spiritual rulers, used formerly by the sultans of Turkey.