Its imam would be a senior Islamic scholar, drawn from Cairo's al-Azhar university.
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He established himself as an academic, an Islamic scholar and orator, a charity worker, a politician and a parliamentarian.
Tension has flared over the visits to Britain of Yusuf al-Qaradawi, an Islamic scholar with a big international following.
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The commission comprises a judge, police officer, and army officer (all retired), a broadcaster, a Catholic bishop, an Islamic scholar and an anti-crime campaigner.
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Islamic scholar and author Reza Aslan wrote after the Amman bombings last November that moderate Muslim clerics must reclaim a faith hijacked by extremists.
Originally written in 1368 by Islamic scholar Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri, the book was translated into English by Nuh Ha Mim Keller in 1991.
When Islamic scholar Abdurrahman Wahid came from behind to become Indonesia's first democratically elected president in 44 years last October, the world was caught by surprise.
Within two weeks, he had been elevated to the senior squad for Australia, completing a memorable journey for a boy, whose parents hoped he would become an Islamic scholar.
While it is not entirely unusual in the U.S. for prominent corporate executives to sit on multiple boards, they are not spread nearly as thin as their Islamic scholar colleagues.
Sayyad Fadhil Milani, spiritual leader at the Al-Khoei Centre in Brent, north-west London, is widely regarded as the UK's most senior Shia Islamic scholar and has written about the mut'ah marriage in his book Islamic Family Law.
To become a real Islamic scholar in any of the Sunni or Shi'a schools of jurisprudence, it is required that the candidate understand completely the Islamic doctrine of al-mansukh wa al-nasikh (that which is abrogated and that which abrogates).
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Dan Fodio, an ethnic Fulani Islamic scholar, rose up against the Hausa rulers of what is now northern Nigeria and Niger and created an empire which stretched from modern-day Burkina Faso to Cameroon, becoming one of Africa's largest pre-colonial states.
Recently, a premier Islamic finance scholar, Mohammed Taqi Usmani, declared some aspects of sukuk to be un-Islamic, specifically the buyback at cost and the interest-free non-recourse loans.
The Treasury Department has created and staffed a position called the Islamic Finance Scholar-in Residence.
He is now a shariah scholar, a shariah adviser on dozens of institutions in the West and also in the Islamic world and in Asia as a shariah adviser.
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