Definition of Khalifa

1. caliph [n -S] - See also: caliph

Lexicographical Neighbors of Khalifa

khagans
khaidarkanite
khakhra
khakhras
khaki
khaki drill
khakied
khakilike
khakis
khakkhara
khalam
khalams
khalat
khalats
khalif
khalifa (current term)
khalifah
khalifahs
khalifas
khalifat
khalifate
khalifates
khalifats
khaliff
khaliffs
khalifs
khalsa
khamaseen
khamaseens
khamrabaevite

Literary usage of Khalifa

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Fire and Sword in the Sudan: A Personal Narrative of Fighting and Serving by Rudolf Carl Slatin (1896)
"THE khalifa Mohammed Sherif, in conjunction with two of the Mahdi's sons, who were scarcely twenty years of age, and many of his relatives, ..."

2. Fire and Sword in the Sudan: A Personal Narrative of Fighting and Serving by Rudolf Carl Slatin (1896)
"THE khalifa Mohammed Sherif, in conjunction with two of the Mahdi's sons, who were scarcely twenty years of age, and many of his relatives, ..."

3. A Oriental Biographical Dictionary: Founded on Materials Collected by the by Thomas William Beale, Henry George Keene (1881)
"But being closely besieged by the khalifa's forces, and seeing no possibility of escaping, he gave poison in wine to his whole family and all that were with ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"It is true that, in a sense, the khalifa at Damascus began the whole disturbance, and that the Iconoclast emperors were warmly applauded and encouraged in ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"No further attempt was made to interfere with the khalifa in his far-off retreat until towards the end of the year, when, good order having been generally ..."

6. The Egyptian Soudan, Its Loss and Its Recovery by Henry Stamford Lewis Alford, William Dennistoun Sword (1898)
"CHAPTER III THE khalifa Omdurman takes the place of Khartoum—The Dervish ... This task was left to the khalifa Abdullah, now generally spoken of as the ..."

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