Crossword-Solution: CALIFS 6 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

The armies of the califs, which wrested from Persia the dominion of the surrounding nations, conquered in succession the provinces of Arabia, Syria, and Egypt, and at length planted the crescent on the walls of Jerusalem.

The Arabian califs were, on various accounts, inclined to favour the resort of Europeans to these shrines of their faith.

But not so well known is his earlier contemporary, Isaac ben Solomon Israeli, who also was born in Egypt and from there went later to Kairuan, where he was court physician to several of the Fatimide Califs.

Was it a wild Oriental dream? Could it all be real--the glittering fires, the gayly-costumed crowds, the illuminated barge, the voluptuous strains of music? Might it not be some gorgeous freak of the emperor, such as the sultan in the Arabian Nights enjoyed at the expense of the poor traveler? Surely there could be nothing real like it since the days of the califs of Bagdad! A single night's entertainment such as this must cost many thousand rubles.

THE CALIF OMAR The Calif Omar, one of the first Califs after the Prophet, is deeply venerated to this day, and is continually quoted as a lover of truth and justice.