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What best defines a caliph?

A Roman Catholic Pope.
Head of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
A priest in the Roman Catholic church
Leader of the Islamic faith after the death of Muhammad.

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Caliph - Leader of the Islamic faith after the death of Muhammad.

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The chief Muslim civil and religious ruler, regarded as the successor of Muhammad.

The caliph ruled in Baghdad until 1258 and then in Egypt until the Ottoman conquest of 1517; the title was then held by the Ottoman sultans until it was abolished in 1924 by Atatürk.
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