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Leader Title In Office Abkhazia: Near East and the Caucasus: Badra Gunba: Acting President of Abkhazia: 19 November 2024: Valeri Bganba: Acting Prime Minister of Abkhazia: 19 November 2024 Afghanistan: Near East: Hibatullah Akhundzada: Supreme Leader of Afghanistan: 15 August 2021 Hasan Akhund: Acting Prime Minister of Afghanistan: 7 September ...
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 caliph is the supreme religious and political leader of an Islamic state known as the caliphate. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Caliphs (also known as 'Khalifas') led the Muslim Ummah as political successors to the Islamic prophet Muhammad , [ 3 ] and widely-recognised caliphates have existed in various forms for most of Islamic history .
List of leaders of Middle Eastern and North African states This page was last edited on 31 May 2021, at 18:41 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Mullah (/ ˈ m ʌ l ə, ˈ m ʊ l ə, ˈ m uː l ə /) is an honorific title for Muslim clergy and mosque leaders. [1] The term is widely used in Iran and Afghanistan and is also used for a person who has higher education in Islamic theology and sharia law.
The title is also used to refer to religious leaders for both Sunni and Shia Muslims. For example, the Saudi Arabian family Al ash-Sheikh (literally House of the Sheikh ) is named after the religious leader and eponymous founder of Wahhabism , Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab .
Pagan honorifics and titles; Role Description Volkhvy: Heathen priests among the pre-Christian Rus' people. Zhrets: Sacrificial and divinatory priests within the Slavic Religion: Gothi/Gythia A title sometimes used by adherents of Heathenism, referring to a priest or ceremonial leader. Witch: A title used by someone who practices Witchcraft.
Muhammad Ahmad 1844–1885: A Muslim religious leader and militant in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Omar Mukhtar 1858–1931: A Libyan leader of the resistance against the Italian occupation forces in Libya. Muhammad Ibn 'Abd al-Karim al-Khattabi 1882–1963: A Moroccan Berber leader, he fought against the French and Spanish occupations of Northern ...