Sentence examples for chief scholar from inspiring English sources
After joining Isis, Binali rapidly rose into its highest ranks: he was appointed as Baghdadi's official biographer, and by spring 2014, he had been named Isis's chief "scholar at arms".
A master of all four types of commentary was the 19th-century chief scholar of Baghdad, al-Alusi, who wrote the voluminous tafsir called Ruh al-Ma'ani (The Spirit of the Meanings).
Indisputably, the chief scholar in this endeavor is the 62-year-old Colonel Glantz, who spent most of his years in the Army thinking of ways to defeat the Red Army.
On 17 October, Food told Cohen that after speaking to an Isis cabinet member and various warlords on the ground, he and his associates in Kuwait had decided that the only way to save Kassig was to reach out to Isis's chief scholar, a 30-year-old Bahraini called Turki al-Binali.
Gahō, Hayashi's third son (also called Harukatsu), became his father's successor as chief official scholar; and Dokkōsai, Hayashi's fourth son (also called Morikatsu), was also employed by the shogunate.
The modern university president often seems more chief executive than scholar, a paradigm Mr. Rudenstine rejects.
The roll call of female high achievers in this Southeast Asian nation cuts across almost all aspects of the sector — from bank chief executives and scholars of Shariah, or Islamic law, to regulators like Zeti Akhtar Aziz, the central bank governor, who is widely credited with playing a leading role in transforming Kuala Lumpur into a hub for Islamic banking.
Gregory was primarily a scholar, whose chief contribution lay in his writings.
Her narrator is Ariel Manto, a young journalist and polymath scholar whose chief interest is in 19th-century thought experiments.
Kenji Yoshino is a respected legal scholar (the Chief Justice Earl Warren professor of constitutional law at New York University) who regularly teaches a course on literature and the law.
The New-York Historical Society has named James Oliver Horton, a George Washington University scholar, as chief historian of "Slavery and the Making of New York," an exhibition that is to open in October.
