anticaliph
nounEtymology From anti- + caliph.
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:
- Related terms
- antipope