Definitions for ulemaˈu ləˌmɑ
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
u•le•maˈu ləˌmɑ(n.pl.)
Category: Eastern Religions
Ref: ‘ulama.
Princeton's WordNet
ulema, ulama(noun)
the body of Mullahs (Muslim scholars trained in Islam and Islamic law) who are the interpreters of Islam's sciences and doctrines and laws and the chief guarantors of continuity in the spiritual and intellectual history of the Islamic community
Wiktionary
ulema(Noun)
The guardians of legal and religious tradition in Islam; clerics.
Origin: From Arabic (‘ulamā’), plural of (‘ālim) ‘learned one’.
Webster Dictionary
Ulema(noun)
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
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
Ulema
a body in Turkey, or any Mohammedan country, of the learned in the Mohammedan religion and law, such as the Imams, or religious teachers, the Muftis, or expounders of the law and the Cadis, or judges; its decrees are called "fetvas."
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