資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Ulema \U`le*ma"\, n. [Turk. & Ar. 'ulam[=a] the wise or learned
men, pl. of '[=a]lim wise, learned.] (Mohammedanism)
A college or body composed of the hierarchy (the imams,
muftis, and cadis). That of Turkey alone now has political
power; its head is the sheik ul Islam.
Ulema \U*le"ma\, n. [Ar. 'ulem[=a] the wise or learned men, pl.
of '[=a]lim wise, learned, fr. alima to know.]
A college or corporation in Turkey composed of the hierarchy,
namely, the imams, or ministers of religion, the muftis, or
doctors of law, and the cadis, or administrators of justice.
資料來源 : WordNet®
ulema
n : the body of mullahs (Muslim scholars trained in 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 [syn: {ulama}]