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  • This has further complicated the already complex relationship between Muslim astronomers and modernists on one side and the traditional Muslim scholars "ulamas" on the other.

    Nidhal Guessoum: Ramadan, Modern Technologies And Consumerism Nidhal Guessoum 2011

  • This has further complicated the already complex relationship between Muslim astronomers and modernists on one side and the traditional Muslim scholars "ulamas" on the other.

    Nidhal Guessoum: Ramadan, Modern Technologies And Consumerism Nidhal Guessoum 2011

  • According to our ulamas [teachers], there is no way that the whole world will not be Muslim.

    God’s Country 2008

  • According to our ulamas [teachers], there is no way that the whole world will not be Muslim.

    God’s Country 2008

  • The conflict emerges when the rebels, backed by radical students and handpicked Muslim ulamas, impose their own hard-line interpretation of Islamic law.

    Fear And Loathing 2008

  • I suggest that all ulamas and judges of the shariah courts become women for at least 6 months to understand what it is that Muslim women go through.

    Norah the Gender Spy Sharon Bakar 2006

  • Islam has no priesthood, as it has no provision for atonement for sin except by the righteous conduct of the individual; its cultic officials are preachers or leaders of prayer (imams) in the mosque worship, and jurists or scholars (ulamas) who interpret the Koran.

    Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Crawford Howell Toy 1877

  • "We have sent ulamas Muslim elders to talk to him and we are trying to engage him," Iqbal added.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • If the Mullahs and ulamas think there is sex in Paradise, I think it is worth dying a matyr as a Muslim.

    SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator 2010

  • It is what the mullahs and the ulamas say that move the earth under the ground than what the Koran say.

    SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator 2010

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