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The Caliph (Arabic: خليفة ḫalīfah/khalīfah) is the head of state in a Caliphate, and the title for the ruler of the Islamic Ummah, an Islamic community ruled by the Shari'ah. It is a transcribed version of the Arabic word خليفة Khalīfah (help·info) which means "successor" or "representative". Following Muhammad's death in 632, the early leaders of the Muslim nation were called "Khalifat Rasul Allah", the political successors to the messenger of God (referring to Muhammad). Some academics prefer to transliterate the term as Khalīfah.
In his book The Early Islamic Conquests (1981), Fred Donner argues that the standard Arabian practice at the time was for the prominent men of a kinship group, or tribe, to gather after a leader's death and elect a leader from amongst themselves. There was no specified procedure for this shura or consultation. Candidates were usually, but not necessarily, from the same lineage as the deceased leader. Capable men who would lead well were preferred over an ineffectual heir.
Actors: Chris Charming (actor), Kathleen Stratton (editor), Zenza Raggi (actor), Bruno SX (actor), Joe D'Amato (director), Gianfranco Romagnoli (producer), Judith Kostner (actress), Csilla Kalnay (actress), Katalyn Hoffner (actress), Ildiko (actress), Johnny Montana (actor), Maria Papp (actress), Charlie White (miscellaneous crew), Anthony Rainer (writer),
Genres: Adult,Actors: Don Messick (actor), Charles Adler (actor), Charles Adler (actor), Brian Cummings (actor), Brian Cummings (actor), Eddie Deezen (actor), Paul Eiding (actor), Nick Jameson (actor), Tony Jay (actor), Casey Kasem (actor), John Kassir (actor), Maurice LaMarche (actor), Allan Melvin (actor), Allan Melvin (actor), Don Messick (actor),
Genres: Animation, Comedy, Family, Mystery,Actors: Timothy Dalton (actor), Roy Kinnear (actor), Peter Jeffrey (actor), William Hobbs (actor), Oliver Cotton (actor), Robert Hoyland (actor), Isla Blair (actress), Rex Tucker (writer), Gordon Gostelow (actor), Cleo Laine (actress), Charles Knode (costume designer), Neil Fitzpatrick (actor), Gavin Richards (actor), Roger Kemp (actor), Kenneth MacKintosh (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Ray Harryhausen (producer), Enzo Musumeci Greco (miscellaneous crew), Henri Jaffa (miscellaneous crew), Danny Green (actor), Jerome Thoms (editor), Harold Kasket (actor), Edwin H. Bryant (editor), Bernard Herrmann (composer), Virgilio Teixeira (actor), Torin Thatcher (actor), Ray Harryhausen (writer), Kathryn Grant (actress), Nathan Juran (director), Charles H. Schneer (producer), Kerwin Mathews (actor),
Plot: While sailing with Princess Parisa to Baghdad to their wedding, Sinbad finds the Colossa Island and anchors his vessel to get supplies for the starving crew. Sinbad and his men help the magician Sokurah to escape from a Cyclops that attacks them, and Sokurah uses a magic lamp with a boy jinni to help them; however, their boat sinks and he loses the lamp. Sokurah offers a small fortune to Sinbad to return to Colossa, but he does not accept and heads to Baghdad. The citizens and the Caliph of Baghdad are celebrating the peace with Chandra, and they offer a feast to the Sultan of Chandra. Sakurah requests a ship and crew to return to Colossa but the Caliph refuses to jeopardize his countrymen. However, the treacherous magician shrinks the princess and when the desperate Sinbad seeks him out, he tells that he needs to return to Colossa to get the ingredient necessary for the magic potion. But Sinbad has only his friend Harufa to travel with him, and he decides to enlist a doubtful crew in the prison of Baghdad, in the beginning of his dangerous voyage to Colossa to save the princess and avoid the eminent war between Chandra and Baghdad.
Keywords: animal-attack, arabian, baghdad-mesopotamia, beach, bridge, cage, caliph, captive, cave, cavernActors: Marlin Skiles (composer), Benny Bartlett (actor), Robert Bice (actor), Eric Blore (actor), John C. Fuller (editor), Bernard Gorcey (actor), David Gorcey (actor), Leo Gorcey (actor), Huntz Hall (actor), Edward Bernds (director), Paul Marion (actor), Michael Ross (actor), Rick Vallin (actor), Dick Wessel (actor), Joan Shawlee (actress),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Mickey Simpson (actor), Dayton Lummis (actor), Merrill McCormick (actor), Edgar Barrier (actor), James Dime (actor), George Macready (actor), Richard Carlson (actor), Roy Engel (actor), Gene Evans (actor), Steven Geray (actor), Fred Graham (actor), Ramsay Hill (actor), Charles Horvath (actor), Rock Hudson (actor), Dennis Weaver (actor),
Plot: Harum (Rock Hudson) is a fearless man of the people who comes to Bagdad to avenge the murder of his father and meets Krairuzan (Piper Laurie), a princess disguised as a commoner, working against a plot by a band of evil schemers trying to do away with her father, the Caliph. She gives Harum a golden sword which, in his hands, makes him invincible. Harum uses the sword in the name of justice and is doing quite well until a duplicate sword is placed in his scabbard during one of his off-guard moments, and he winds up in chains.
Keywords: baghdad-mesopotamia, brawl, dance-number, desert, disguise, harem, kiss, prison, revenge, swashbucklerActors: Gerald Mohr (actor), Francis McDonald (actor), Morris Ankrum (actor), David Bond (actor), Jeff Chandler (actor), Robert Barrat (actor), Tony Curtis (actor), Leon Belasco (actor), Roy Gordon (actor), Harry Guardino (actor), Reed Hadley (actor), Chuck Hamilton (actor), Victor Jory (actor), Henry Corden (actor), Hugh O'Brian (actor),
Plot: In medieval Persia, Kashma Baba is a military cadet by day and a roisterer by night. The morning after a rowdy banquet, Kiki, an escaped slave, takes shelter under Kashma's roof. Word comes that the wicked Caliph is looking for her; but Kashma, by this time in love, flees with her to his father's palace. Alas, there's more to Kiki than meets the eye. Will the evil schemers succeed? The sons of the Forty Thieves to the rescue!
Keywords: arabian, character-name-in-titleActors: Joe Ansen (writer), Sebastian Cabot (actor), Carmen Sevilla (actress), Harry Lee Danziger (producer), Edward J. Danziger (producer), Paulette Goddard (actress), Luis Induni (actor), Christopher Lee (actor), John Boles (actor), Julia Lajos (actress), Rafael Durán (actor), José Calvo (actor), Antonio Riquelme (actor), Jesús García Leoz (composer), Felix E. Feist (writer),
Plot: Hassan, the Kadi of Bagdad, has a harem housing twelve beauties, but concentrates his attention on Zohara. A newcomer, Kyra, introduces rebellion into the by the unheard of act of complaining to the Caliph about the lot of the women in the harem. Hassan suffers a greater shock when his God-son, Ezar, asserts that women are the equal of men. They make a wager under which Ezar must settle down with a conventional harem unless Zohara can outwit Hassan within ten days.
Keywords: battle-of-the-sexes, beggar, blindness, caliph, dancer, equal-rights, eunuch, godparent, harem, kidnappingActors: Paul Bradley (actor), Charles Judels (actor), Joseph Granby (actor), Edward Arnold (actor), Jimmy Ames (actor), Hugh Herbert (actor), Morris Ankrum (actor), Hobart Cavanaugh (actor), Ronald Colman (actor), Harry Cording (actor), Pedro de Cordoba (actor), James Craig (actor), Dick Botiller (actor), Harry Davenport (actor), Cy Kendall (actor),
Plot: Hafiz, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself.
Keywords: 1001-nights, arabia, arabian-nights, arrest, assassination-attempt, baghdad-mesopotamia, based-on-play, beggar, caliph, caravanActors: Edward O'Neill (actor), Harald Madsen (actor), W.P. Kellino (director), Carl Schenstrøm (actor), Val Valentine (writer), Scott Sidney (writer), Philip Hewland (actor), Gladys Hamer (actress), Frank Perfitt (actor), Gerald Rawlinson (actor), Emile de Ruelle (editor), Janice Adair (actress), P.J. de Venloo (producer), W.A. Darlington (writer), Blanche Metcalfe (writer),
Genres: Comedy, Comedy, Fantasy,