khalif

• “Al-Rassan was the stronghold of the western Asharite faith until Ammar ibn Khairan killed the last khalif, splintering the land into feuding city-states.”

  Wertzone Classics: The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay

• “In the south, the Asharites, who worship the stars, whose territory, Al-Rassan, used to be united under a khalif but is now fragmented into many independent city-states.”

  The Lions of Al-Rassan

• ““Shawir hunna wa khalif hunna,” which may be translated:”

  The Life of Sir Richard Burton

• “The unpopular cause of the Beni-Umeyyah, who were detested for the murder of the grandsons of the Prophet under the second of their line, was lost in a single battle; and the death of Merwan, the last khalif of the race, was followed by the unsparing proscription of the whole family.”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844

• “Abbasides; and when Al-Ala, the _wali_ of Africa, invaded Spain in order to re-establish the supremacy of the eastern khalif, the head of his unsuccessful general, thrown before the tent of Al-mansor at”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844

• “Then came the hajibs or chamberlains, the sons of the vizirs, the freed slaves of the khalif, and the wakils or officers of his household.”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844

• “Under various pretexts he destroyed or drove into exile, within a few years, all the princes of the blood, and others whose influence or station might have endangered the success of his projects, and concentrated in his own hands all the powers of the state; while the khalif, secluded from public view within his palace, was as completely”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844

• “[18] Under the Arab dynasties of the east, the _vizir_ was exclusively an officer _of the pen_: and Makrizi expressly mentions that Bedr-al-Jemali, who became vizir to the Fatimite khalif Al-Mostanssor in 1074, was the first in whom _the sword and the pen_ were united.”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844

• “The khalif An-nasir, whose prosperity in mundane affairs became proverbial, had only fourteen days of undisturbed enjoyment during a reign of fifty years, seven months, and three days.”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844

• “To such utter helplessness was the khalif reduced, [22] that he was unable even to oppose the removal of the royal treasure fiom Cordova to a fortified palace which”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844

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