大学英语词汇短语释义解析及例句 caliph


释义：

caliph n. 哈里发（伊斯兰教主）
[ 复数 caliphs ]

例句：



The caliph of bagdad fly on his magic carpet to Arabia.

巴格达的国王驾著魔毯飞到了阿拉伯半岛。



When young Egyptians crowded into Cairo's Tahrir Square, they wanted rights, not a caliph.


In 688, Caliph Abd al-Malik began building the Dome of the Rock, which still stands on that site today.


The percentages fixed in Muhammad's time applied only to mining and agriculture (and, agonised one early caliph, were pomegranates exempt?).


Congregants, he said, should nominate a global body to elect a new Caliph, replacing the Ottoman ruler whose downfall Europe had engineered.


The Paris exhibition ends in 1957 with a fine drawing by Frank Lloyd Wright of a monument to the legendary caliph Haroun al-Rashid.


They are less concerned to pay respects to their former rulers than to honour their status as Caliph, head of the Islamic faith.


Shia revere Ali, the prophet Muhammad's son-in-law and Islam's fourth caliph.


AD, the Abbasid caliph al-Mansur consulted a Persian astrologer called Nawbakht to find a conjunction of the planets favourable to laying the foundation stone for a new capital.


Made in 968 for the youngest son of the Caliph of Cordoba, it features men variously listening to music, plucking dates or nabbing eggs from a falcon's nest.