anticaliph

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Etymology

From anti- +‎ caliph.

Noun

anticaliph (plural anticaliphs)

  1. 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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