ulema
IPA: juɫˈimʌ
noun
- 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
Examples of "ulema" in Sentences
- This was the sole province of the Ulema.
- It's not the right translation for ulema.
- They would ally with, not fight with, the ulema.
- Also, that the ulema promote and approve such violence.
- Among the contemporary ulema, if the great Ayatollah...
- Ali was not a scholar, he was not a member of the ulema.
- Among the contemporary ulema, if the great Ayatollah ...
- This modernization is opposed by most conservative 'ulema'.
- Crone has a long history of distrusting the ulema's version of events.
- Military problems arise from mutinous Janissaries, and factious Ulemas.