HyperDic: ulama

English > 1 sense of the word ulama:
NOUNgroupulama, ulemathe body of Mullahs (Muslim scholars trained in Islam / 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
English > ulama: 1 sense > noun 1, group
MeaningThe body of Mullahs (Muslim scholars trained in Islam / 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.
Synonymulema
MembersMullah, Mollah, MullaA Muslim trained in the doctrine and law of Islam
BroaderbodyA group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity
Spanishulama, ulema
Catalanulama, ulema

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