Some ulema are not associated with any school, for various reasons.

This passed a signal to the ulema throughout the country.

This particular issue tests the consensus of the ulema based party.

His departure was also a defeat for the ulema as a class.

This would continue to be the chief ulema stance in Egypt.

But because all governments were illegitimate, ulema must not hold political office.

The 'ulema everywhere also exercise power through the religious and secular press5.

The question became how this law could be brought to life in a country whose scholars are dominated by the ulema.

The ulema was also on occasion able to defy the government.

This move was considered to be related to the pressures of the religious establishment or ulema.

Members of this family had become important Ulema by the second half of the 18th century.

However, our ulema closed the doors on ijtihad in the 13th century.

The ulema were the teachers, scholars, and intellectuals of Egyptian society.

The Shii ulema had never taken such an active role in politics before.

It was a transparent attempt to undermine the traditional ulema.

Napoleon gave the ulema more power than they had ever had before.

Al-Muhibbi described him as "the last of the great ulema."

The ban on the ulema's social existence came in the form of dress code.

The ulema certainly experienced the dawn of modernity as destructive.

For over a century, the ulema had enjoyed almost unrivaled power in Iran.

The ulema argued that this organization would allow them to better organize the regional war effort.

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

There were huge protests all over the country, led by the bayaris and the local ulema.

Many of these ulema also believed that it is best to marry within one own caste.

But because they were a major channel of communication between the rulers and the people, the ulema became extremely powerful.