meaning of ulema
1. 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.
2. the body of mullahs Muslim scholars trained in Islam and Islamic law who are the interpreters of Islams sciences and doctrines and laws and the chief guarantors of continuity in the spiritual and intellectual history of the Islamic community
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