Sentence examples for religious qualifications from inspiring English sources

Montazeri's supporters soon questioned Khamenei's religious qualifications.

Awlaki had no religious qualifications and almost no religious education beyond his own patchy reading.

Men who possessed certain religious qualifications, such as the reciters of the Qurʾān (qurrāʾ), transmitters of Ḥadith (muḥaddithūn), jurists of Islamic law (fuqahāʾ), and ascetics, lived in the ribāṭ and were held in honour by the common people.

Thanks to his own religious qualifications, Mr Badawi can speak with greater authority in Arabic if need be than Dr Mahathir does in defence of the government's secular version of Islam against PAS's charges of godlessness.

Kings most often appointed bishops from among their followers without regard for religious qualifications; the metropolitan see was often fragmented in the course of territorial partitions and tended to lose its importance, and the church in Francia increasingly withdrew from papal control despite papal attempts to reestablish ties.

I think the essential point would be that there are no religious qualifications for holding public office.

"New arrivals to the country are strongly represented in present church congregations and it could be that the growth in religious studies qualifications is associated with immigration," it adds.

The Guardian Council, which screens all candidates for their religious and political qualifications and is known for its conservative Islamist views, is expected to announce the winnowed list of candidates for the June 12 elections on May 22.

In Torcaso v. Watkins (1961), he delivered an opinion which affirmed that the states could not use religious tests as qualifications for public office.

For instance, he voted in favor of the Court's ruling that the states could not use religious tests as qualifications for public office in Torcaso v. Watkins.

Since when are religious beliefs a qualification for the Supreme Court?