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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Many of these ulama also believed that it is best to marry within one own caste.
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Ulama supporting the theory disagree over how encompassing custodianship should be.
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In addition, the student had to have been tested and approved by higher ranking ulama.
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The Internet gives some streams of ulama speaking on a video record, which is very rare.
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These schools became means of uniting Sunni ulama, which legitimized the rule of the Sultans.
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The next day, he met with a group of Egyptian nationalists and ulama.
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He married seven times and all of his wives were daughter of ulama.
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But when half a million American troops arrived in 1990, the ulama split, and have remained split.
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Nonetheless, the local ulama were courted, with funding for religious education and the clerics.
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- Ulema: 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
- Ulama (/u02C8uu02D0lu0259u02CCmu0251u02D0/; Arabic: u0639u0644u0645u0627u0621u200Eu200E u02BFUlamu0101u02BE, singular u0639u0627u0644u0650u0645 u02BFu0100lim, "scholar", literally "the learned ones", also spelled ulema; feminine: alimah (singular) and uluma (plural)), is defined as the "those recognized as scholars or authorities" in the "religious hierarchy" of the Islamic religious sciences. They are the guardians of legal and religious tradition in Islam...
- Ulama is a ball game played in a few communities in the Mexican state of Sinaloa. Descended from the Aztec version of the Mesoamerican ballgame, the game is one of the oldest continuously-played sports in the world, and is also notable for the fact that it is the oldest known game utilizing a ...
- Alternative form of ulema
- The learned, knowledgeble people in Islam. Plural form of alim.
- Muslim religious scholars. From the ninth century onward, the primary interpreters of Islamic law and the social core of Muslim urban societies. (p. 238)
- Learned scholars of Islamic law and jurisprudence. Singular form: alim
- (Ar.)theplural form of 'alim; one who pursues knowledge in the religious sciences of Islam. The ulama are the religious notables of the Muslim ummah.
- Those Muslims who are considered knowledgeable in religious learning, particularly in jurisprudence and theological matters.
