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• n  the body of Mullahs (Muslim scholars trained in Islam and Islamic law) who are the interpreters of Islam's sciences and doctrines and laws and the chief guarantors of continuity in the spiritual and intellectual history of the Islamic community

• At the same time that Roman Catholic canon lawyers were putting together their reform proposals, another group of ecclesiastical legal expertsthe ulema (scholars) of Islam .
• The ulema became the foremost target of this campaign and efforts were made to win over unscrupulous people by bribery Religious institutions were closed and congregational prayers .
• The ulema do not much like Badr, have refused requests by the Imam to ratify Badr's title.

• ulama

News & Articles

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• Saudi Grand Mufti Condemns Attacks on Non-Muslims
  WASHINGTON, Sept. 17, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Saudi Arabia's Grand Mufti Shaikh Abdulaziz Al-AsShaikh, who is also Chairman of the Council of Senior Ulema (religious scholars) and the General Presidency of Scholarly Research and Ifta, condemned violence against non-Muslims...
  Sept. 17, 2013 - PR Newswire

Quotes

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• Ahmed Al-Waeli in Reuters India
  One of the signs of the coming of the Mahdi was to be the killing of the Ulema (hierarchy) in Najaf,Waeli said. "This was a perverse claim. No sane person could believe it."
• Ayman al-Zawahri in Times of India
  I call upon the ulema (Muslim clergy) in Pakistan.......... Musharraf and his hunting dogs have tarnished your honour in service of the crusades and the Jews,Zawahiri said.
• Hamid Karzai in Reuters South Africa
  If there is anything that is of concern to us then we will definitely take action in consultation with our ulema (senior clerics) and send it back to the parliament ...... This is something we are serious about,Karzai said.