Why did the Kaiser love the Sultan and Kalif so greatly?
The visit was evidently greatly appreciated by the Mohammedan Kalif and the Sultan of Turkey; and his people, at his orders doubtless, made the Germans realize how proud they were at being thus honored by the Kaiser.
If this custom is followed, the King of Hedjaz becomes the Kalif in place of the Sultan of Turkey.
The old Moorish leader Mousa had spoken well when he told the kalif at Damascus that the Christians of Spain were lions in their castles, and the Moors were repeatedly given ample proof of the wisdom of his observation.
The old Count of Lara was prevailed upon to go to the kalif at Cordova, bearing a letter from Velasquez which was supposedly of political import, but which was intended to be the count's death warrant.
Taken prisoners, their heads were cut off and sent to Cordova, where the kalif was cruel enough to present them to their imprisoned father for identification.
Enjoying as he did the full confidence of the sultana, Almanzor undertook the entire administration of the kingdom as if he had been kalif in name as well as in fact, and his success in all his various undertakings was most wonderful.
Seville was his capital, and there his power was so great that the kalif in Damascus, fearing that he might attempt to rule independently, sent out men to take his life.
He raised the lid and showed the wonderingKalif the two stones.
I did what any other would have done in my place," answered Kalif simply, "and expect no reward.
In consequence Kalif had more customers in one day than he generally had in ten years, and his daily receipts testified to the worth of the casket.
Then Kalif knew whom he had saved: it was the Shah himself.
He is the son and heir of Kalif," continued the barber, more courageously; "the same Kalif whom the Shah once rewarded with a magic casket.
Kalif never spoke of his adventure in the Kalaat Mountains, neither could he ever make up his mind to test the virtue of the stones, being a frugal man on the one hand, and unwilling to surpass his neighbours in wisdom on the other.
The echo of the earthquake in France and Italy had been heard in Africa, and the kalif had been anxious to forestall the joining of the redoubtable Sicilian Count to the Crusade by early display of friendship.
Were I to sing, it would be Kalif Rahdi's poem, of which the burden runs, 'Man is but the child of woe!
A great and splendid embassy it was, headed by no less a person than Hisham, son of Afdhal, vizier to the kalif Abul Kasim.
The kalif said to me: 'Cid Musa, you are a gallant emir.
When the ambassadors hinted that the Crusaders would be welcome at the Holy City if they would only enter unarmed, the answer was fiery: "Tell the kalif that we do not fear all the power of Asia or of Egypt.
I serve the kalif of Egypt, not the emir of Mosul.
The Fatimite kalifof Cairo is our ally, if all else prosper.
Musa had received by the latest ship to Marseilles from the East, a long and flattering letter from Afdhal, the vizier of the Fatimite kalif himself.
When they are blotted out, we take the sultan and kalif unawares!
To strikekalif and sultan we need more--an army--myriads; how gather it?
There is a rumor that if the two overcome the Christians, they turn their arms against the kalif and the arch-sultan next.
He is the son and heir of Kalif," continued the barber, more courageously, "the same Kalif whom the Shah once rewarded with a magic casket.
Then Kalif knew whom he had saved: it was the Shah himself!
His son Hakam, however, allowed the influence of the women of the court to become dominant, and on his death the Sultana Aurora, mother of the young Kalif Hisham, became the most important personage in the state.
He was the son of the great Kalif of Cordova, Abd-er-Rahman III.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kalif" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
