Sentence examples for important clerics from inspiring English sources

There are open sewers near the offices of many of the most important clerics.

Some important clerics from opposition group Combative Clerics Society joined the demonstration and visited Sohrab's and Neda's graves.

Khoei was mentor to many of the most important clerics of the last quarter of the 20th century, including Muḥammad Bāqir al-Ṣadr of Iraq and Mūsā al-Ṣadr and Muḥammad Ḥusayn Faḍlallāh of Lebanon.

Rather, what it means is that Khamenei will now be trying even more to cultivate and improve his relations with Sistani and others important clerics in the Shia world.

Senior officials, important clerics, lawmakers and Revolutionary Guards commanders, who in the past have reflexively opposed any accommodation with the West, now go out of their way to laud Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his team of negotiators, as well as the government of President Hassan Rouhani.

"One of the important clerics showed up in my district with a competing candidate and told everyone that under Islam, they had to vote for this man because he follows the laws of Islam closely," said Safiya Assad, a 47-year-old accountant running in one of the capital's districts.

It may be shocking to many Muslims accustomed to hearing fatwahs from self-important clerics and state religious officials that the leader of the largest Muslim organization in the world's most populous predominantly Muslim nation believed in both democracy and the supremacy of private conscience over religious authority.

Despite a lack of political connection, Iraq's most important Shiite clerics survive in exile in Iran today.

At age 13 he was sent to study Islamic law (Sharīʿah) at Al-Najaf, wheremainedmanded and became one of the most important Shīʿite clerics of his day, attaining the status of marjaʿ al-taqlīd (Arabic: "source of emulation") in 1970 and ministering to Shīʿite communities both in Iraq and throughout the world.

Important group of clerics in Iran defies Ayatollah Khameini, calls election illegitimate.

Originally, legislative power was exercised by the sovereign acting on the advice of the Curia Regis, or Royal Council, in which important magnates and clerics participated and which evolved into parliament.