the office or dignity of caliph. The successions of caliphs continued from the death of Mohammed till the 655th year of the Hegira, when Baghdad was taken by the Tartars. After this, however, there were persons who claimed the caliphate, as pretending to be of the family of the Abassides, and to whom the sultans of Egypt rendered great honours at Cairo, as the true successors of Mohammed; but this honour was merely titular, and the right allowed them only in matters of religion; and though they bore the sovereign title of caliphs, they were subjects and dependents of the sultans. In the year of the Hegira 361, a kind of caliphate was erected by the Fatimites in Africa, and lasted till it was suppressed by Saladin. Historians also speak of a third caliphate in Yemen or Arabia Felix, erected by some princes of the family of the Jobites. The emperors of Morocco assume the title of grand sheriffs, and pretend to be the true caliphs, or successors of Mohammed, though under another name.