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Prayer leader: you can call me a leader of Muslims (4)

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I believe the answer is:

imam

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'prayer leader' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'can call me a leader of muslims' is the wordplay.
'can' is an anagram indicator (I've seen 'canned' mean this (canned can mean drunk)).
'call' indicates a 'sounds like' (homophone) clue.
'leader of' says to take the initial letters.
The first letter of 'muslims' is 'm'.
'me' is a homophone of 'mi'.
'mi' with letters rearranged gives 'im'.
'im'+'a'+'m'='IMAM'

'you' acts as a link.
I am not very happy about this link. It may be part of another bit of the clue.

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(Other definitions for imam that I've seen before include "Muslim preacher" , "Islamic minister" , "Caliph" , "Islamic prayer leader" , "Leader of prayers in mosque" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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