Sentence examples for highest religious authority from inspiring English sources

Saudia Arabia's highest religious authority, the Grand Mufti, declared that Islam forbade street protests.

Egypt's highest religious authority, the Mufti, issued a religious decree against piracy earlier this year.

In recent days, the army and Egypt's highest religious authority have warned about the potential for deadly civil strife.

In Morocco, the king is called "commander of the faithful," making him the highest religious authority in the country.

The Jordanian poet Islam Samhan has been accused of apostasy by the grand mufti, the kingdom's highest religious authority.

Then the cleric, who carries the designation of marja-e taqlid, the highest religious authority in Shi'ite Islam, replies.

I leave that to the highest religious authorities".

Likewise, many Muslims, even those outside Egypt, consider al-Azhar's sheikhs to be among the highest religious authorities in the Sunni world.

On Saturday, Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, a prominent conservative, called the appointment of Mr. Mashaei "completely unbelievable" and said to promote him was to "ridicule the highest religious authorities".

In a public statement, Abbas Shuman, deputy of grand imam Ahmad Al-Tayyib of the Egyptian religious authority Al-Azhar, the highest religious authorities in Sunni Islam, wrote that the potential reform to inheritance was, "unjust for women and is not in line with Islamic Sharia".

This is a clear example of how highest religious authorities have become puppets and clowns in the hands of ruling tyrants in the Muslim world". Abdullah's words also drew a stinging reaction from European bishops.