: a king or sovereign especially of a Muslim state
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There remains a deep local respect for the sultan, however, even if it is not always captured in elite perspectives.
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Jon Emont, Foreign Affairs, 9 June 2015
One of the mandates handed down to the present sultan, Haitham bin Tariq, who succeeded Qaboos in 2020, is to usher the country into a sustainable future.
—Chris Wallace, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2025
Rather, throughout the 50 years of Sultan Qaboos’s reign, there was an effort to keep Omani culture intact, while modernizing to have the best of things (including, in Muscat, a dazzling opera house, a passion project for the music-loving sultan).
—Chris Wallace, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2025
Some secular nationalists even went as far as to claim that Ottoman sultans such as Mehmet the Conqueror had invented religious tolerance and helped inspire the European Renaissance.
—Nick Danforth, Foreign Affairs, 6 Jan. 2015
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Jon Emont, Foreign Affairs, 9 June 2015
One of the mandates handed down to the present sultan, Haitham bin Tariq, who succeeded Qaboos in 2020, is to usher the country into a sustainable future.
—Chris Wallace, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2025
Rather, throughout the 50 years of Sultan Qaboos’s reign, there was an effort to keep Omani culture intact, while modernizing to have the best of things (including, in Muscat, a dazzling opera house, a passion project for the music-loving sultan).
—Chris Wallace, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2025
Some secular nationalists even went as far as to claim that Ottoman sultans such as Mehmet the Conqueror had invented religious tolerance and helped inspire the European Renaissance.
—Nick Danforth, Foreign Affairs, 6 Jan. 2015
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sultan
noun
sul·tan
ˈsəlt-ᵊn 
: a king or ruler especially of a Muslim state
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