anticaliph

anticaliph

English

Alternative forms

• antikhalif (rare)
• anti-caliph, anti-Caliph

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 unite the Muslim world under a caliph.
   • 2019, Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Arabs, Yale University Press, p. 247:

     Already notorious for his harshness, it was he who had masterminded the defeat of the anti-caliph.

   Holonym: anticaliphate

Translations

Another caliph

Finnish: vastakalifi French: anticalife m, less commonly antikhalife m German: Gegenkalif m Russian: антихали́ф m (antixalíf) Swedish: antikalif c

See also

• antipope