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Islamic religious leaders have traditionally been people who, as part of the clerisy, mosque, or government, performed a prominent role within their community or nation.. However, in the modern contexts of Muslim minorities in non-Muslim countries as well as secularised Muslim states like Turkey, and Bangladesh, the religious leadership may take a variety of non-formal sha
A mufti reading in his prayer stool, by Jean-Léon Gérôme (c. 1900) A mufti (/ ˈ m ʌ f t i /; Arabic: مفتي, listen ⓘ) is an Islamic jurist qualified to issue a nonbinding opinion on a point of Islamic law . [1] [2] The act of issuing fatwas is called iftāʾ. [3]
Famous local sheikhs include Ishaaq bin Ahmed, an early Muslim scholar and Islamic preacher, Abdirahman bin Isma'il al-Jabarti, an early Muslim leader in Somaliland; Abadir Umar Ar-Rida, the patron saint of Harar; Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti, Sheikh of the riwaq in Cairo who recorded the Napoleonic invasion of Egypt; Abd Al-Rahman bin Ahmad al ...
[3]: 5 The Sheikh ul-Islam (or "grand mufti") of Istanbul had, since the late 16th century, come to be regarded as the head of the religious establishment. [4] He was thus not only pre-eminent but bureaucratically responsible for the body of religious-legal scholars and gave legal rulings on important state policies such as the dethronement of ...
Kanthapuram A. P. Aboobacker Musliyar, officially known as Sheikh Abubakr Ahmad [b] [3] [4] (born 22 March 1931) [1] [a], is the tenth and current Grand Mufti of India. [5] [6] and General Secretary of the All India Sunni Jamiyyathul Ulama (the Indian Muslim Scholars Association) and General Secretary of Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama of AP Sunnis.
The formal acknowledgment by decree of the sultan became a prerequisite to issue fatwas. In the 17th century, the annalist al-Hamawi used the expression "sultanic mufti" (al-ifta' al-sultani) to delineate the difference between the officially appointed religious leaders and those who had followed the traditional way of education.
The sovereigns' main titles were Sultan, Padishah (Emperor) and Khan; which were of various origins such as Arabic, Persian and Turkish or Mongolian. respectively.His full style was the result of a long historical accumulation of titles expressing the empire's rights and claims as successor to the various states it annexed or subdued.
The Grand Mufti of Barelvi Indians is the Barelvi Islamic authority in the country appointed by Bareilvi community. [11] His main role is to give opinions on Islamic legal matters and social affairs. [12] [13] The Grand Mufti is traditionally chosen from the Barelvi school of Sunni Islam. [14]