a vague though not improper definition of the caliph.
Theophanes introduces the strange appellation of
which his interpreter Goar explains by Vizir Azem.
They may approach the truth, in assigning the active part to the minister rather than the prince;
but they forget that the Ommiades had only a kateb, or secretary, and that the office of Vizir was not revived or instituted till
the 132nd year of the Hegira (D'Herbelot, p. 912).