The political leader of the Muslim world, successor of Muhammad's political authority, not religious or spiritual. Example: The Abbasid caliphs patronized art and science beside religious developments ushering in the Islamic Golden Age when their capital Baghdad began to flourish as a center of knowledge, culture and trade.
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