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Meanings of ulema in inglês

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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.

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        Usage of ulema in inglês
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        His public scolding of the top ulema, aired on national television, was unprecedented.
        The Guardian
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        Mirajuddin was a former member of parliament and a senior member of a pro-Taliban Islamic group, Jamiat-e-ulema-e-Islam.
        Reuters
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        It had caused division between piety and rationalism, which had affected the intellectual standing of the ulema.
        A history of god: the 4000-year quest of judaism, christianity, ...
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        As to their learning, there is an immense difference between a Turkish ulema and a Moorish doctor.
        Travels in Morocco, Volume 1.
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        In Turkey, the closure of the madrasahs led inevitably to the decline of the authority of the ulema.
        A history of god: the 4000-year quest of judaism, christianity, ...
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        People, such as the ulema, might be unable to understand the Islam of a Sufi like Ibn al-Arabi.
        A history of god: the 4000-year quest of judaism, christianity, ...
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        Sufi orders were abolished and went underground; the madrasahs were closed and the state training of the ulema ceased.
        A history of god: the 4000-year quest of judaism, christianity, ...
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        At this early stage, Sufism was very much a minority movement and the ulema often regarded it as an inauthentic innovation.
        A history of god: the 4000-year quest of judaism, christianity, ...
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        Like al-Hallaj, however, Suhrawardi was also put to death by the ulema in Aleppo in 1191, for reasons that remain obscure.
        A history of god: the 4000-year quest of judaism, christianity, ...
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        Sufism and Shiism also interpreted Islam differently from the ulema, the clerics who adhered solely to the Holy Law and the Koran.
        A history of god: the 4000-year quest of judaism, christianity, ...
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        People wanted a God who was more immediate and sympathetic than the remote God of the Faylasufs and the legalistic God of the ulema.
        A history of god: the 4000-year quest of judaism, christianity, ...
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        The sheik and the ulemas must be rescued, cost what it might.
        Mohammed Ali and His House
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        Rise up, Ulema, grovel not before me in the name of the Sultan.
        Halil the Pedlar: A Tale of Old Stambul
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        The ulemas now arose, and with powerful voices began the following monotonous chant:
        Mohammed Ali and His House
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        His most virulent attacks are naturally directed against the Ulema, as in the following extract:
        Mystics and Saints of Islam
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        He paused, for the head sheikh of El Medineh, with two Ulema, entered the throng.
        Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Volume 2
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        Ulema through the time