Khalifa

Khalifa or Khalifah is a name or title which means "successor", "deputy" or "steward". It most commonly refers to the leader of a Caliphate, but is also used as a title among various Islamic religious groups and orders. Khalifa is sometimes also pronounced as "kalifa". There were 4 khalifas after Mohammed died, beginning with Abu Bakr. This was a difficult decision for the people to make, for no one except Mohammed had ever thought with foresight about who would rule after he would die. The Khilaafat (or Caliphate) was then contested and gave rise to the eventual division of the Islamic Umma into two groups, the Sunni and the Shi'a who interpret the word, Khalifa in differently nuanced ways.
The earliest Islamic uses include 'Khaleefa(ḥ)' in The Holy Qur'an, 2:30, where Allah commands the angels to bow down to Adam which more clearly guides to the root Classical Arabic meaning of the word as "Vicegerent", or divinely connected representative of Allah in the human form as a mercy to mankind. See also how this meaning interacts with the word, Shirk (associating a partner or partners to Allah) by (for example) bowing down to them (in this case, Adam) with reverence. "Vicegerent", therefore, is more at "divinely-guided spokesman" than "deputy" in this context and leads to the discovery of the role of Imam in Islam, from the Shi'i or Shi'a point of view where, it is claimed, the spiritual Khilaafat or designation of Khaleefa in this meaning of spiritual and temporal guide falls upon the first Imam, 'Ali ibn Abi Talib, "the favourite" (who received his mission from his cousin the Prophet Muhammed himself but who also conceded the Khilaafat to the election and claim of the politically more powerful and more popular leader and his senior, Hadhrat Abu Bakr). In the Shi'i tradition, however, the dissolved claim to the Khilaafat by 'Ali thereafter crystallised into Imamat which continued with his descendants after him through appointment by nass, or designation).

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Steward, leader, successor, regent, viceroy.

Khalifah, Khaleefah, Jalifa

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Mia Khalifa	1993	American social media personality and former porn actress
2	Wiz Khalifa	1991	American rapper
3	Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan	1948	Emirati politician
4	Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa	1950	King of Bahrain
5	Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani	1932	Former Emir of Qatar
6	Khalifa Belqasim Haftar	1943	Libyan general
7	Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa	1987	Bahraini royal
8	Meriam Al Khalifa	1980	Bahraini royal of the House of Al-Khalifa
9	Rashad Khalifa	1935	Egyptian-American biochemist
10	Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa	1935	Prime Minister of Bahrain
11	Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa	1933	King of Bahrain
12	Khalid bin Hamad Al Khalifa	1989	Bahraini equestrian rider
13	Abdullah bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa	1975	Bahraini politician
14	Sabika bint Ibrahim Al Khalifa	1948	Bahraini royal
15	Nassim Ben Khalifa	1992	Swiss football forward
16	Sam Khalifa	1963	American baseball player
17	Mohammed Jamal Khalifa	1957	Saudi Arabian businessman
18	Saber Khelifa	1986	Tunisian footballer
19	Hala bint D'aij Al Khalifa		Bahraini royalty
20	Faisal bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa	1991	Bahraini royal
21	Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa	1960	Bahraini politician
22	Isa ibn Ali Al Khalifa	1848	Hakim of Bahrain
23	Khalifa al-Ghawi	1963
24	Khalifa Sall	1956	Senegalese politician
25	Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifa	1872	Ruler of Bahrain
26	Tea Khalifa	1977
27	Hessa bint Salman Al Khalifa	1928	Bahraini Queen consort
28	Amira Khalifa	1974	Finnish actress
29	Khalifa bin Zayed bin Khalifa Al Nahyan		Emirati royal
30	Khalifa Sankaré	1984	Senegalese footballer
31	Rashid bin Khalifa Al Khalifa	1952	Bahraini royal; painter
32	Khalifa Jabbie	1993	Footballer
33	Ahmed ibn Muhammad ibn Khalifa		King of Bahrain
34	Khalid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa	1944	Bahraini engineer
35	Khalifa bin Harub of Zanzibar	1879	Sultan of Zanzibar
36	Khalifa Ababacar	1989
37	Khalifa St. Fort	1998	Trinidadian sprinter
38	Khaled Khalifa	1964	Poet and writer
39	Khalifa al-Zanati
40	Khalifa Jassim Al-Kuwari	1977
41	Rashid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa	1954
42	Khalifa bin Jassim Al Thani	1959	Qatari royal
43	Rafik Khalifa	1966	Algerian businessman
44	Sheikh Khalifa Ezzat		Egyptian Imam
45	Mohammed ibn Salman Al Khalifa		Bahraini royal
46	Osama Khalifa	1995	Egyptian squash player
47	Amr Khaled Khalifa	1992	Egyptian squash player
48	Saida Miller Khalifa		British convert to Islam
49	Laroussi Khalifa	1917	Algerian high-ranking civil servant in France and politician (1917-1990)
50	Shaikha Noora Bint Khalifa Al Khalifa
51	Omer Khalifa	1956	Athletics competitor
52	Salman Ebrahim Mohamed Ali Al Khalifa	1979	Guantanamo detainee
53	Shaikha Dheya bint Ebrahim Al Khalifa		Bahraini royal
54	Khalifa AlJaziri	1979	Businessperson
55	Khalifa		Mansa of Mali
56	Khalifa Al Dhahrani	1942	Member of the National Assembly of Bahrain
57	Khalifa Muhammad Turki al-Subaiy
58	Ahmed Khalifa	1985	Egyptian footballer
59	Mir Mohib Ali Khalifa
60	Ahmed bin Ali bin Abdulla Al Khalifa		Businessperson
61	Khalifa Bin Yousef	1915	United Arab Emirates politician
62	Abdel Qawi Khalifa		Egyptian general, governor and politician
63	Khalifa Mohammad Asadullah	1890	Librarian
64	Soumaya Khalifa		American businessman
65	Ahmed bin Ateyatalla Al Khalifa	1966	Bahraini politician
66	Khalifa Alqattan	1934	Artist
67	Khalifa Suleiman Khalifa	1956	Tanzanian Member of Parliament
68	Khalifa Abdur Rehman	1934	Cricketer
69	Khalifa Ahmed Al Bin Ali	1936	Bahraini lawyer
70	Saaed Khalifa		Iraqi actor
71	Khalifa Ayil Al-Naufli	1984	Omani Footballer
72	Labid Khalifa	1955	Moroccan footballer
73	Mhamed El Khalifa	1939	Moroccan politician
74	Khalifa Natour		Israeli Palestinian actor
75	Obaid Khalifa	1985	Emirati footballer
76	Ahmed Samy Khalifa	1933
77	Salman Al Khalifa	1976	Bahreini racing driver
78	Ebrahim bin Khalifa Al Khalifa		Government minister of Bahrain
79	Abd al-Karim Khalifa	2000
80	Khalifa Shaheen Al Merri		Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to Iran
81	Khalifa Abdullah	1991
82	Khalifah Mubarak	1993
83	Khalifa Khamis	1966	Fencer
84	Seif Khalifa	1988
85	Mohamed Ould Khalifa		Mauritanian athletics competitor
86	Ibrahim Khalifa		Egyptian karateka
87	Khalifa Al Mutaiwei	1971	Emirati rally driver
88	Khalifa Lahej	1993
89	Sultan Khalifa	1969
90	Abdullah Bin Mohammad Bin Rashed Al Khalifa
91	Khalifa Ibrahim	1991
92	Mohamed Abdel Aziz Khalifa
93	Fawaz bin Mohammed Al Khalifa
94	Khalifa Bin Omair	1968
95	Nur-Ali Khalifa
96	Mohamed Asswai Khalifa	1944
97	Khalifa ibn Waqqasa
98	Sayed Khalifa
99	Khalifa Abdul Hakim	1896
100	Al Anood Hamed Al Khalifa	1992
101	Latifa Mohammed Al Khalifa	2001
102	Shaikha Abdulrahman Al Khalifa	1993
103	Khalifa ibn Askar
104	Nouf Khalid Al Khalifa	1989
105	Zain Mohammed Al Khalifa	1991
106	Dwa Khalid Al Khalifa	1987
107	Khalifa Mohammed Issa	1959