(n.) A college or corporation in Turkey composed of the hierarchy, namely, the imams, or ministers of religion, the muftis, or doctors of law, and the cadis, or administrators of justice.
Example Sentences:
(1) The points agreed at a regular meeting of the Ulema Council of top clerics are not legally binding.
(2) I have spoken with several members of our Ulema council and they have said there is no problem with it, because it is a health issue."
(3) He offered an austere Islam cleansed of what he believed to be innovations, which eschewed centuries of mainstream scholarship and commentary, and rejected the authority of the traditional ulema, or religious authorities.
(4) Tahir Ashrafi, the head of the Ulema Council, Pakistan’s biggest council of Muslim clerics, said Trump’s comments promoted violence.
(5) Another major religious party, a faction of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam led by Maulana Fazlur Rehman, also sparked anger in the wake of the killing of Mehsud by claiming anyone, "even a dog", who is killed by the US should be considered a martyr.
(6) "One of the reasons, the most significant, is that we convened a meeting of more than 3,000 ulema [(Islamic scholars] … these, after they endorsed us, carried out a mosque-to-mosque campaign, issued fatwas and [held] Friday prayers where they asked the women to participate," the former World Bank official told journalists at a news conference in Kabul.
(7) "It's probably not an extreme position for the Ulema Council, but it's an extreme position for Karzai, and not compatible with the constitution, or Afghanistan's obligations under international law."
(8) The grand Ulema commission, an influential grouping of religious scholars, will be reconfigured and opened to moderate clerics, breaking the grip of the ultra-conservatives.
(9) Two leading Islamist parties, the Jamaat-e-Islami and the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam faction led by Fazal-ur-Rehman, abstained from voting on the bill, which will be debated by the senate on Wednesday.
(10) One of the people who died was Maulawi Ekmattulah, the head of the local ulema shura [the provincial religious council]," Ayoubi said.
(11) But now is not the time to point fingers but to focus on how we can deal with this quickly.” As the Indonesian Council of Ulema has held mass prayers for rain, the administration of President Joko Widodo has deployed 30 aircraft and 22,000 troops to fight the fires on the ground, as well as stationed several warships off Kalimantan, on standby to evacuate victims if required.