sultan kingSultan is a position with several historical meanings. Orinally, it was an Arabic abstract noun meaning strength, authority, rulership, derived from the verbal noun سلطة sulṭah, meaning authority or power. Later, it came to be used as the title of certain rulers who claimed almost full soverenty (i.e., not having dependence on any hher ruler) without claiming the overall caliphate, or to r…Learn the key s between sultan and king, two terms for male rulers with different cultural and historical orins. Compare their