caliph

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The Kemalists initially bestowed upon Abdulmejid the largely symbolic title of caliph after they dispossessed his cousin of ruling power in 1922.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026

It started out as a rebranded faction of Al Qaeda, under the leadership of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, an Iraqi militant cleric and insurgent leader turned self-styled caliph.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 2, 2025

It is named after Omar, Islam's second caliph.

From BBC • Dec. 8, 2023

Over the weekend, Serigne Mountakha Mbacke, caliph of the Mouride brotherhood, Senegal’s most influential religious order, called on people in the city of Touba, the brotherhood’s headquarters, to stop demonstrating and return home.

From Washington Times • Jun. 5, 2023

The caliph embraced the old man, and, calling him his father, begged him to relate what he had seen in the city of Aram.

From The Thousand and One Days A Companion to the 'Arabian Nights' by Pardoe, Julia