caliphian

alternative Caliphian

1. not comparableOf or relating to the caliph, a Muslim political leader.

   ...the cruelty of the passions and the superlative cruelty informing the whole social system. For example, we should not dream of dwelling on the more serious functions of the caliphian eunuchs.

   1913, Arnold Bennett, Paris Nights, and Other Impressions of Places and People, page 76

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   Nevertheless it was the Mu'tazilite "learned men" who first began to take interest in the foreign learning that was brought to their notice through the encouragement given by the caliphian court to physical and astronomical studies.

   1954, Johannes Hendrik Kramers, Analecta Orientalia: Posthumous Writings and Selected Minor Works, page 126

   Synonyms: caliphal

1. not comparableAlternative letter-case form of caliphian.

   They find illegal, the dissociation of the Caliphate and Sultanate, in short, the transfer of the Caliphian powers to a body of persons.

   1968, Henri Lammens, Islam: Beliefs and Institutions, page 202