Sentence examples for the ulema from inspiring English sources

The rule has been that when the king was strong the ulema were weak.

But King Salman appears to be giving the ulema a longer leash.

Out of this muddle was born the primacy of the ulema, Islam's clerical establishment.

This is what the ulema have termed reading or listening as adoration.

A major basis for this structure of poetic patronage was the bureaucratization of the ulema.

"The Ulema wanted to ban all TV serials," Mr. Khurram said in an interview.

Until 2009 he was a member of the High Council of Senior Islamic Scholars (the Ulema).

By challenging the Taliban movement at the core of its legitimacy -- its claim as a religious authority -- the Ulema-u-Shura has drawn direct reprisals against its members.

Even Fazel Ahmad Manawi, the spokesman for the Ulema Council, concedes the media's impact.

This spring, the government and the Ulema Council relented and dropped the charges.

The Ulema Council, one such Muslim political party, asserts that Muslims played an important role in the victory of Congress.