Sentence examples for the ulama from inspiring English sources

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.

He undermined the influence of the ulama and of popular religious organizations.

But when half a million American troops arrived in 1990, the ulama split, and have remained split.

He was deposed on Aug. 8, 1648, by a Janissary uprising supported by the ulama (religious notables) and was executed 10 days later.

It seems that Neşri lived in the city of Bursa and was probably a member of the ulama (the learned religious leaders) and a poet of minor distinction.

To counteract the growing influence of the Algerian Ulama, the French government issued the circulaire Michel, which forbade members of the association from preaching in the mosques.

He provided intellectual backing for reconciling, at least to the satisfaction of the Nahdlatul Ulama, the nation's largest organization of Islamic clerics, Pancasila, the five principles of the Indonesian state, with Islamic jurisprudence.

"Mahathir does this because his Islamic credentials are so weak, and because he spends so much time attacking the ulamas.

It also functioned as a training camp for Gyugun and Heiho soldiers, military units formed by the Japanese which consisted of native soldiers; the Gyugun was formed by the ulamas, while the Heihos were taken from the santri.

The Nahdlatul Ulama, the country's largest Muslim organization, has long opposed Islamist ormas like HTI, arguing that their embrace of stricter foreign versions of their faith stood in direct opposition to the country's homegrown moderate strain of Islam.