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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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(38) The ulama, although not all in favor of Khomeini's ideology, were ready to compromise in order to regain their political relevance and prominence.
In the contest for the three vice presidential slots, Husam Musa and Muhamad Sabu of the Young Turk camp retained their posts while the third slot went to Ahmad Awang, a senior ulama.
Followers of the major schools were expected to accord equal status and respect to each one of them and consider the decisions of their representative ulama as binding upon the followers of each respective school.
The ulama saw "Cultural Westernization," and the beginnings of the infiltration of western beliefs as an enormous moral failing.
The ulama had very clear ideas about the impression that they wanted to create.
Against the objections of some members of the ulama, he sent several Iranians to Europe to study modern sciences, (12) and even invited Europeans to immigrate to Iran as they did to America.
The DAP secretary-general was responding to former Selangor PAS deputy ulama chief Ahmad Dusuki Abdul Rani's term of adding pahala or 'divine reward' in urging Muslim Malaysians to back the boycott campaign.
And from the platform of Majlis Ulama e Pakistan we are celebrating this August as the month of Istihkam e Pakistan.
Banu writes that "Sultanah Safiatuddin's ascension to the throne as the first female ruler of Aceh Dar al-Salam in 1641 was not opposed by the ulama" (p.
"Some elements of Assam have targeted Muslims during the NRC process and they harassed the original Indian citizens," Assam Jamiat Ulama general secretary Fasdul Karim Qasimi said acknowledging that there are illegal Bangladeshis in Assam.
'The Ulama should, during Tafseer/preaching, proffer solutions to problems that have become endemic in the society, specifically corruption and injustice at all levels, political thuggery, kidnapping, armed robbery, adultery, cultism, banditry, the breakdown of Muslim family values, insecurity and other social vices and moral decadence bedeviling the society', he added.
While it did not provide exact details of these acts, the statement released late on Wednesday, said the Turkish government opened earlier this year, an office for the the Eritrean Muslim League, "under the mantel of the Eritrean Ulama's League/Eritrean Rabita-i Ulama." The group is reportedly linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, which has close ties to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
"This is not a conflict between two religions," pointed out the Muslim religious leader who is also the re-gional chair of the Ulama League of the Philippines.
Jonathan Tasic Torribiano, a driver of Melanio Ulama of the Bangsamoro Transition Commission, and Mariam Ulama Cali died from shrapnel wounds from the blast.