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
That unease perhaps began with Al-Husseini, the World War II-era grand mufti of Jerusalem and Palestinian Arab nationalist, an enthusiastic Nazi supporter who helped recruit Bosnian Muslims to their side, and whose antisemitism was well-documented.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 13, 2023
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
Lebanon’s grand mufti, the top cleric for Sunnis, described the charges as an attack on “the office of the prime minister.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2021
As my father debated with the mufti, one of the elders spoke up.
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
The muftis explained that that portent signified that the glory of the Padishah would reach the heavens, and that he would be the ruler to crush Kamenyets,—an obstacle hitherto invincible.
From Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk
The Mahommedan community is rapidly diminishing; it is organized under 16 muftis who with their assistants receive a subvention from the government.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" 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
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