But the spokesman, Mr. Ahsan, denied any role in Tuesday's attack on the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam candidate.
The groups include the Indonesian Ulema Council and Muhammadiyah, the country's second largest Islamic organisation.
The rule has been that when the king was strong the ulema were weak.
The Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazal (JUI-F) is a right-wing party with ideological links to the Deobandi orientation of Islam.
The al-Saud family is vulnerable to intense internal pressure, especially from the ulema, or senior Muslim clerics.
The Al Saud family is vulnerable to intense internal pressure, especially from the ulema, or senior Muslim clerics.
Sheikh Bin Baz remained loyal to the ruling family and struggled to bring young hotheads in the ulema into line.
It is especially interesting to note, however, that the Nadwatul Ulema teaches Shafi'i Fiqh, which is prevalent among Muslims in southern India.
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When Fahd became king in 1982, he was hampered by his playboy past and felt he had to cultivate the ulema and give them more power.
After Ibn Saud's death in 1953, and the beginnings of modernisation under his sons Saud and (especially) Faisal, the ruling family sought to turn the ulema (religious scholars) into tame, well-paid bureaucrats.
That right belongs to the ulema (clerics).
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One such was a medieval theologian, Taqi al-Din ibn Taymiyya, a sort of Muslim Luther who in reaction to the Mongol onslaught of the 13th century preached a return to the essentials of the faith, which the ulema (clerics) of the time had forsaken.
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