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anti-caliph

anti-caliph is the alternative form of anticaliph.

Meaning of anticaliph

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.
    • Already notorious for his harshness, it was he who had masterminded the defeat of the anti-caliph.2019, Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Arabs, Yale University Press, page 247

Forms of anti-caliph

pluralanti-caliphs

Questions about anti-caliph

What is anti-caliph the alternative form of?
Anti-caliph is the alternative form of anticaliph.

Words near anti-caliph in the dictionary

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  2. anti-burqa
  3. anti-caking
  4. anti-caking agent
  5. anti-caking agents
  6. anti-caliph
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  8. anti-camera
  9. anti-Canadianism
  10. anti-cancer
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