Mr Rafsanjani, for instance, says the society, is an exceptional cleric with widespread popular appeal.Pushing the clerics out of electoral politics and back into their secluded seminaries is advocated by progressive religious intellectuals as a way of ensuring the long-term health of the Islamic system.
At the same time, though, clerics associated with Moktada al-Sadr, an anti-American cleric with significant influence in Sadr City, have devoted a portion of Friday Prayer services to inveighing against homosexuality.
In Mass Appeal (1981), he played a worldly wise cleric with a fondness for a drop.
Whatever the numbers, he has been outdone by Tahir ul-Qadri, a Canada-based cleric with a devoted following.
Salman al-Awda, a Saudi cleric with a large social media following, was among those being held.
A slightly obscure choice perhaps, but Michael Horden's portrayal of the left-leaning cleric with a secret past was spellbinding.
A6 An Iraqi cleric with a wide following called for Iraqis to reject the newly formed Governing Council.
8 Which priest failed to kill which senior cleric with a bayonet at a famous Marian shrine?
Few people claim to know what Mr. Wahid, a 60-year-old Muslim cleric with mercurial tendencies, is thinking.
Nuri al-Maliki depends for a majority on members loyal to Muqtada al-Sadr, a radical anti-American Shia cleric, with a powerful militia at his disposal.
He and a Sufi cleric with a separate following, Tahir ul Qadri, headed for the government district, though each drew far fewer supporters than promised.
