ULAMA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

ulama; ulema

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("ulama" is a kind of...):

body (a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity)

Meronyms (members of "ulama"):

Mollah; Mulla; Mullah (a Muslim trained in the doctrine and law of Islam; the head of a mosque)

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