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Type Words
Type of jurist, legal expert
Has types grand mufti
Type Words
Type of civilian clothing, civilian garb, civilian dress, plain clothes

Examples of mufti

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All mujtahid exercise at the same time the powers of a mufti and can give fatwa.
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Men in mufti and men in military attire were in tears, old people, young people.
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Mufti crisscrossed the region, interviewing fugitives from the Baathist regime.
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Imagine a soldier, wearing mufti, traveling through Syria in a rattletrap taxi.
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The coup failed and the mufti fled to Berlin, where he actively supported Hitler.
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Mufti claims she is not photogenic, but she must have been radiant that night.
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That earned me a fatwa from the mufti of Saudi Arabia declaring my infidelity.
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In mufti, and out of his own parish, he felt he could safely sit at the bar.
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After demobilization into the regular workforce, employees are like an army in mufti.
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  • A jurist who interprets Muslim religious law
  • Civilian dress worn by a person who is entitled to wear a military uniform
  • A mufti (/u02C8mu028Cfti/; Arabic: u0645u0641u062Au064Au200Eu200E muftu012B; Turkish: mu00FCftu00FC) is an Islamic scholar who is an interpreter or expounder of Islamic law (Sharia and fiqh). A muftiate or diyanet is a council of muftis.
  • Mufti, or civies/civvies (slang for "civilian attire"), refers to ordinary clothes, especially when worn by one who normally wears, or has long worn, a military or other uniform.
  • (of Jerusalem) -- See Haj Amin el Husseini.
  • A highly qualified Islamic Jurist who issues fatawa (s. fatwa, informed legal ruling), to address a particular question or situation posed to him.
  • Civilian clothes worn by someone usually in uniform; the implication being that the clothes cannot hide the man, or that the man wears casual attire like a uniform would be worn. ...
  • An interpreter or implementer of shari'ah or Islamic law (essentially an Islamic lawyer). The Council of Muftis gathers together to debate changes to Islamic laws in the face of modern advances, such as organ donation.
  • An expert in the Shari'ah who gives legal judgments called fatwas. Usually one mufti in a given geographic area is called the Grand Mufti.