Sentence examples for clerics with from inspiring English sources

Clerics with the highest level of scholarship are considered invaluable guides, especially in the secular West.

An Ulema Council is a body of Islamic clerics with religious authority in a region.

Others are clerics with loyalties to different factions of Shiite theologians in Iraq and Iran.

Iran's system, the diametric opposite, invests clerics with absolute legal and political authority.

He has brought a few other clerics with him.And, for the first time, the state has pushed back.

The oil kingdom lavishes clerics with money and perks that can suddenly vanish if their preaching goes astray.

Ecclesiastical court, tribunal set up by religious authorities to deal with disputes among clerics or with spiritual matters involving either clerics or laymen.

It was founded a decade ago by young Muslim clerics disillusioned with the political corruption found all over the country, and with the lack of adequate jobs and social services in underdeveloped northern Nigeria.

Many clerics disagreed with its strict subordination of the church to the state and with the limitation of the pope's jurisdiction to spiritual affairs.

Saudi Arabia has unleashed its ultimate weapon in its battle against terrorism: Wahhabi clerics armed with fatwas.

It even directly criticized the Guardian Council, the powerful group of clerics charged with certifying elections.