Sentence examples for local ulama from inspiring English sources

"There are some local ulama" — learned people — "still corresponding in Ajami," Muhammad said, adding that he sees the removal of the script from the naira as an erasure of Nigeria's literary and scholarly heritage — one that risks helping Boko Haram to exploit the country's divisions and further alienate disadvantaged Muslim youth.

"There are some local ulama"—learned people—"still corresponding in Ajami," Muhammad said, adding that he sees the removal of the script from the naira as an erasure of Nigeria's literary and scholarly heritage one that risks helping Boko Haram to exploit the country's divisions and further alienate disadvantaged Muslim youth.

Yahya Staquf, one of Mr Wahid's official spokesmen, says these local ulamas often have more influence than the NU's official leaders.

In its absence, the informal justice system run by local mullahs, the ulama and tribal elders in accordance with customary and Islamic law was the principal mechanism for resolving conflicts and dispensing justice.

The construction of the mosque was spearheaded by three local figures, Angku Gapuak (a rich merchant), Angku Syekh Haji Uma (the village chief), and Angku Syekh Kapalo Koto (an ulama), while the funds were provided by Minang businesspeople and ulamas throughout Sumatra.

From offices financed in part by the city government, the Forum-allied vigilante groups have mounted their campaigns, with the police often seeing them as an aid in maintaining local order, said Nuruzzaman, the local leader of Ansor, the youth movement of Indonesia's largest mainstream Islamic organization, Nahdlatul Ulama.

He had the support of most of the higher ulama.

Some scholars have thought it to mean the Prophet's contemporaries and others the Ulama.

Increasingly, the laws were administered in new state courts, outside the control of the ulama.

Today, Nahdlatul Ulama links 7,000 pesantren and claims more than 30 million members.

For a Muslim ulama, or priest-scholar, his appetite for smut was remarkable.