Associations to the word «Ulema»

Wiktionary

ULEMA, noun. (plurale tantum) The guardians of legal and religious tradition in Islam; clerics.

Dictionary definition

ULEMA, 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.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope