Prominent Iranian politicians and clerics have led mourners at a funeral for a senior commander of the country's Revolutionary Guards.
Even so, Moussavi's supporters and key figures, including senior politicians and clerics, fueled rifts within Iran's Islamic leadership that were "evident for the whole world to see, " Dabashi said.
They have defied their husbands and parents at home and clerics outside to come out and work with riot victims and travel to dingy and often hostile courtrooms around the state to fight their cases.
In the weeks leading up to Monday's vote, described by Odinga as the most consequential since independence from the British in 1963, peace activists and clerics worked to ensure the election would be peaceful despite lingering tensions.
Trust will not be restored by clerics investigating and judging clerics.
But this argument overlooks the fact that all the candidates for the Qom-based Assembly of Experts must be clerics, and moreover clerics approved by the Council of Guardians.
Moreover, this secular ruling is being backed by the country's top Muslim and Christian clerics.
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Academics, a dentist, a geologist, and several clerics were among those held.
If the fighting in Mazar continues, the city's 1.8m inhabitants may have little choice but to head north, harbouring who knows how many hardened fighters and fiery clerics in their midst.
Whereas there is a frightening drop in vocations to the priesthood and religious life in North America and Europe, religious vocations are booming in Africa and African clerics are all over the Western world helping in the re-evangelization of the descendants of the Western missionaries who brought Christianity to Africa.
By contrast, on August 5, the Prime Minister announced that he was "absolutely and completely committed" to ensuring that those foreign clerics and others who come to Britain and condone, glorify or justify terrorism are deported.
The authors of these books were clerics and philosophers, or charlatans out to get rich quick.
Carpet-bagging politicians rolled up in Mercedes cars with tinted windows, alongside turbaned Shia clerics and baggy-trousered Druze elders.
Kashmir's chief of police has assembled a committee of officials, politicians, local clerics and journalists to investigate the matter.
Dozens of Christian clerics and other civilians are also trapped inside the church.
The Pope will take his meals in the communal dining room together with other visiting clerics and permanent residents.
Some have suggested, for example, that to curb Islamist militancy European states should train Muslim clerics and reduce the influence of foreign-trained firebrands.
With piety deepening worldwide, and with state clerics often seen as stooges, the faithful seek out scholarly views that are conservative enough to suit them.
It also ran interviews with moderate clerics and social observers.
In July, the pope issued a new set of laws for reviewing abuse cases and defrocking abusive clerics, doubling the statute of limitations for sexual-abuse cases to 20 years.
The article recounts how the Saudis are using teams of three clerics and a psychiatrist or psychologist to "reeducate" young men by exposing them to hours of clerical discourse.
Correspondents say King Abdullah has been cautiously pressing for political reforms, but in a country where conservative clerics and some members of the royal family resist change, liberalisation has been very gradual.
Conservative clerics and merchants form a hard-to-challenge lobby.
Saudi Arabia is Islam's birthplace and the ultra-conservative clerics who controlled the education system in the 1980s and 1990s preached a message of intolerance towards other religious groups and what they saw as heretical Muslim sects, a message they have since reformed.
As environmentally minded clerics, and greens with a spiritual bent, confer in increasing numbers, in particular over climate change, acquaintances are being struck that transcend many ethnic, ideological and theological obstacles.
Bishop Irenaenus of Lyon sought to keep things simple in 180 when he and a group of clerics restricted the texts used for worship to the four Gospels that have since become so familiar.
In Egypt, Muslims shut themselves away on the orders of clerics but Jordan and Syria declared a national holiday.
The region has a long history of women dancing and singing in public at festivals and marriages, even though some clerics oppose such behaviour.
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The civilized world should exert itself to support moderate clerics, defend them and provide them with platforms to protect their religion from extremists who want to distort and hijack it.
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