mufti
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The mufti conspired with Iraqi soldiers to overthrow the pro-British Prince Regent Abd al-Ilah of Hejaz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026
In a move widely seen as conciliatory, he made a historic trip to predominantly Muslim Turkey later that year and prayed in Istanbul's Blue Mosque with the city's grand mufti.
From Reuters ● Dec. 31, 2022
He’s grouchy and dyspeptic in his costume, and mopey and floppy in his Bruce Wayne mufti.
From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2022
When Italian bombers attacked Haifa and Tel Aviv, the former grand mufti of Jerusalem sent his congratulations to Mussolini.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2021
Eventually the mufti backed down and the men left.
From "Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World" by Malala Yousafzai
“For example, different jurists and muftis will put forth various, sometimes conflicting fatwas. On which fatwa should the police or any other agents of the state rely when enforcing Islam?”
From The Guardian ● May 27, 2015
Muslim leaders, the muftis, have apparently worked out a kind of modus vivendi with the government; in exchange for being allowed to practice their religion they often support the government on major policy questions.
From Time Magazine Archive
He gave orders to gather together the interpreters of the law, the wise men, and the muftis, as well as the officers.
From Malayan Literature by Various
Show the same regard to their muftis and imaums, as you have shown to the bishops and rabbins.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various
One would suppose that an English governor, if called to decide upon such a claim of the Nabob's, would doubtless be attended by judges, muftis, lawyers, and all the apparatus of legal justice.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
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