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<p>79.214.160.12: </p> <hr /> <div>The Seriph is the ruler of [[Klatch]] (the nation - not the continent). The last known Seriph was [[Creosote]], at the time of ''[[Sourcery]]''.<br /> <br /> By the time of ''[[Jingo]]'', whilst a Seriph remained at least nominally at the head of Klatchian government, affairs of state were seemingly handled by a number of princes, in particular Prince [[Cadram]].<br /> <br /> [[William de Worde]] was his correspondant in Ankh Morpork.<br /> <br /> <br /> ==Annotations==<br /> The [[Roundworld]] equivalent is &quot;Caliph&quot;.<br /> <br /> A &quot;Caliph&quot; (pronounced ''khaleef'' in Arabic) is the head of state in a Caliphate, and the title for the leader of the Islamic Ummah, or global Islamic nation. It is a transliterated version of the Arabic word خليفة ''Khalīfah'', which means &quot;successor&quot; or &quot;representative&quot;.<br /> <br /> Presumably Seriph is a cross between that and &quot;Seraph&quot; - a celestial being: the first of the nine orders of angels in medieval Christian angelology - as well as a reference to a seriph/serif, the typographical term for the flat bits that stick out at the end of the main line of a letter (this font is ''sans serif'').<br /> <br /> [[Category:Discworld concepts]]<br /> [[Category:Discworld culture]]<br /> [[de:Serif von Al Khali]]</div>

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