khalifs

The state of affairs in the East, indeed, left little leisure to the Umeyyan khalifs to attend to the regulation of a remote province.

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

Of Ishak Ibn Ibrahim Al-Mausili, who was famous for his voice and was a "constant companion of the khalifs in their parties of pleasure," the khalif Al-Motasim charmingly said:

A Boswell of Baghdad With Diversions 1903

This was very much the case in Cairo in the olden days, and khalifs and cadis, muftis and pashas, were not very scrupulous about whose money or possessions they administered, and even to-day in some Mohammedan countries it is not always wise for a man to grow rich.

Peeps at Many Lands: Egypt R. Talbot Kelly 1897

To the east is that glorious cemetery known as the "tombs of the khalifs," which contains many of the finest architectural gems of mediæval Egypt; to the west is Fostat, the original "city of the tent," from which Cairo sprang, while over the rubbish heaps of old

Peeps at Many Lands: Egypt R. Talbot Kelly 1897

"Arabian Nights," and in our walks one may at any moment meet the hunchback or the pastry-cook, or the one-eyed calender, whose adventures fills so many pages of that fascinating book; while the summary justice and drastic measures of the old khalifs are recalled by the many instruments of torture or of death which may still be seen hanging in the bazaars or from the city gates.

Peeps at Many Lands: Egypt R. Talbot Kelly 1897

A.D. 960, under the dominion of the Fatimite khalifs of Egypt, and in A.D. 1073 under the Turcomans.

Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897

The khalifs of Baghdad protected their Christian subjects, and important offices of state were often filled by them.

The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003 William Holden Hutton 1895

Christians as teachers, physicians, philosophers, were famous in the foundation of the learning of the palmy days of the khalifs.

The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003 William Holden Hutton 1895

The great library of the Spanish khalifs eventually numbered six hundred thousand volumes; its catalogue alone occupied forty-four.

History of the Conflict between Religion and Science 1881

It was not the intention of the khalifs to limit their conquest to Egypt.

History of the Conflict between Religion and Science 1881