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English
Etymology
From anti- + caliph.
Noun
anticaliph (plural anticaliphs)
- Someone who has the pretence of forming a government featuring the real caliph, as opposed to another caliphate claiming to succeed of Muhammad under a caliph.
- Holonym: anticaliphate
2019, Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Arabs, Yale University Press, page 247:Already notorious for his harshness, it was he who had masterminded the defeat of the anti-caliph.
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