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  • And in Jerusalem in 1009, the Holy Sepulcher of Jesus was destroyed at the order of the Kalif of Cairo; a weeping Christ on a cross was seen in the heavens, when the terrible news reached Limoges.

    Remarks At Fifth Millennium Evening At The White House ITY National Archives 1999

  • They patronised craftsmen who looked not into their hearts, but into the past -- who from the court of the Kalif brought pretty patterns, and from classical antiquity elegant illusions, to do duty for significant design.

    Art Clive Bell 1922

  • Kalif, but lived to cut his enemy down, and call Roland to him.

    National Epics Kate Milner Rabb 1901

  • Less than a year after William II became Emperor of Germany, the imperial yacht, the _Hohenzollern_, steamed through the Mediterranean into the narrow Dardanelles and, saluted by forts on both shores, passed on to Constantinople, the capital of the Moslem Kalif and the

    Winning a Cause World War Stories Inez Bigwood 1901

  • With the death of the great Kalif Al Hakem II. -- 976 -- the power of Islam in Spain began slowly to decline.

    Women of the Romance Countries John Robert Effinger 1901

  • When the Kaiser attempted to bring on a Holy War, the Arabians joined the Allies, founded the independent kingdom of Hedjaz, and recognized its king as the Kalif.

    Winning a Cause World War Stories Inez Bigwood 1901

  • Why did the Kaiser love the Sultan and Kalif so greatly?

    Winning a Cause World War Stories Inez Bigwood 1901

  • Holy War but failed because the Mohammedans in Arabia did not recognize the Sultan of Turkey as Kalif.

    Winning a Cause World War Stories Inez Bigwood 1901

  • If this custom is followed, the King of Hedjaz becomes the Kalif in place of the Sultan of Turkey.

    Winning a Cause World War Stories Inez Bigwood 1901

  • Mecca and Medina, the birthplace and the burial place of the prophet, as their Kalif.

    Winning a Cause World War Stories Inez Bigwood 1901

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