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Much like the constitutional movement, the nationalization movement benefited from the ulama's support in its initial stages and was later derailed when this support was withdrawn.

The election was billed as a fight between the ''Young Turks'' and the ''ulama'' or Muslim clerics.

Traditionally, numerous senior ulama, the learned in the law, have exercised the fight to issue religious rulings based on meticulous research of the sources of Islamic law, including the context in which particular revelations occurred, and of accumulated precedents.

Yet during this period, religion and government were actually quite separate; the secular caliphs and the religious leaders (ulama) coexisted but were left to their own relative public and private spheres.

Indeed, "Cultural Westernization" found resistance from many walks of life including, intellectuals, nationalists and the ulama.

The most articulate members of Damascene society, who come closest within earshot, were the ulama, the members of the Muslim religious establishment.

The documents examined in this article are among the earliest modern texts examining these concepts and were written by high-ranking members of the Iranian clergy (ulama) in the early nineteenth century.

A PAS ulama is playing a dangerous game bordering on extremism by supporting a call to boycott buying goods from non-Muslims, Lim Guan Eng said today.

Khateeb Imam Badshahe Mosque Lahore and Chairman Majlis Ulama e Pakistan Maulana Syed Muhammad Abdul Khabir Azad, Professor Dr Qibla Ayaz, Dr Ahmad Dervish, Archbishop Sebastian Shaw, and other leaders addressed Istihkam- e-Pakistan Conference.

One of the great ulama, Nuruddin al-Raniri, stated that "Safiatuddin was a great and generous queen" (p.

The process has not been free from controversies with Assam Jamiat Ulama alleging that Muslims have been targeted during the NRC process.

'During Tafseer/preaching, the Ulama should not engage in controversial issues that are capable of dividing the Ummah and diverting attention from the major problems affecting the Ummah.