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Meanings of ulema in English
Synonyms
Examples for "ulama"
Examples for "ulama"
1
His father was one of the viziers, not one of the 'ulamá.
2
Even the Persian government itself became awakened and regretted that which had arisen through the fault of the 'ulamá.
3
Some there are in Persia who have become liberated through this cause, whose cleverness and eloquence the 'ulamá cannot refute.
4
Likewise, the foundation of the religion of Muḥammad has disappeared, but its form remains in the hands of the official 'ulamá.
5
Then he appointed the 'ulamás of 'Iráq to intercede for him.
Usage of ulema in English
1
His public scolding of the top ulema, aired on national television, was unprecedented.
2
Mirajuddin was a former member of parliament and a senior member of a pro-Taliban Islamic group, Jamiat-e-ulema-e-Islam.
3
It had caused division between piety and rationalism, which had affected the intellectual standing of the ulema.
4
As to their learning, there is an immense difference between a Turkish ulema and a Moorish doctor.
5
In Turkey, the closure of the madrasahs led inevitably to the decline of the authority of the ulema.
6
People, such as the ulema, might be unable to understand the Islam of a Sufi like Ibn al-Arabi.
7
Sufi orders were abolished and went underground; the madrasahs were closed and the state training of the ulema ceased.
8
At this early stage, Sufism was very much a minority movement and the ulema often regarded it as an inauthentic innovation.
9
Like al-Hallaj, however, Suhrawardi was also put to death by the ulema in Aleppo in 1191, for reasons that remain obscure.
10
Sufism and Shiism also interpreted Islam differently from the ulema, the clerics who adhered solely to the Holy Law and the Koran.
11
People wanted a God who was more immediate and sympathetic than the remote God of the Faylasufs and the legalistic God of the ulema.
12
The sheik and the ulemas must be rescued, cost what it might.
13
Rise up, Ulema, grovel not before me in the name of the Sultan.
14
The ulemas now arose, and with powerful voices began the following monotonous chant:
15
His most virulent attacks are naturally directed against the Ulema, as in the following extract:
16
He paused, for the head sheikh of El Medineh, with two Ulema, entered the throng.
Frequent collocations
Ulema through the time