Sentence examples for established clerics from inspiring English sources

They never refer to traditions or to traditional Islam; they don't mention fatwas from established clerics.

But Hilal, wearing the enveloping black niqab, with only two slits for her eyes, read a poem titled "The Chaos of Fatwas" — an attack on Islamic militants and established clerics for their many religious rulings that incite violence.

The question now is whether the older, more established clerics can win over the Shiite rank and file, or whether frustration will spread the appeal of an Islamic state.

In 2010, she writes, a Saudi woman named Hissa Hilal became a finalist on a Persian Gulf reality show called "The Million's Poet" ("a local version of 'American Idol,' only in verse"), and recited an angry, groundbreaking poem that assailed extremist groups and established clerics.

His militia's battles with the American military in 2004 wrecked the sacred city, and his prominence during the occupation threatened to upset Najaf's established order, whose clerics revere the antithesis of Mr. Sadr, namely age and scholarship.

Critics, including clerics from established Christian congregations, accuse Almighty God evangelists of strong-arm conversion tactics that include kidnapping and study sessions lasting days that they describe as brainwashing.

With these churches in competition for parishioners, some clerics establish their unique godly credentials by claiming to have special powers in recognizing and exorcising these " child witches".

For instance, the government created Korpri (Korps Pegawai Republik Indonesia) in November 1971 as union of civil servants to ensure their loyalty, organized the FBSI (Federasi Buruh Seluruh Indonesia) as the only legal labour union in February 1973, and established the MUI in 1975 to control Islamic clerics.

A recent conference in Mecca that brought together Muslim clerics to denounce terrorism was hosted by the Muslim World League, a body established by Saudi Arabia but long associated with the Brotherhood.

Worthy of note is the involvement of the Islamic Fiqh Academy, which is an Academy for advanced study of Islam and which was established by the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) in 1988 and which is administered by a body of Islamic clerics.

While the revolution had the support of a broad cross-section of society (including Islamists, secularists, nationalists, laborers, and ethnic minorities), Khomeini and other leading Shia clerics strengthened by a pre-existing network of social service and other parallel institutions consolidated their hold and established an Islamic theocracy.