"Ulema" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... where half his own ill-gotten gains were hid, if he would let the bimbashi go. Now, Selamlik Pasha was an Egyptian, and is it not written in the Book of Egypt that no man without the most dangerous reason may refuse backsheesh? So it was that Selamlik talked to the Ulema, the holy men, who were there, and they urged him to clemency, as holy men will, even ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... the Ulema were met And the thing heard, they doubted not; But sentenced him, as the law is, To die by stoning on ...
— The Germ - Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art • Various
... as most of these important cases are connected with the Vakuf, the real estate held by the mosques, like our glebe lands at home, it follows that the Sheik ul Islam generally decides in favor of his own class, who are the Ulema, or priests. The consequences of this mode of administering the ...
— Paul Patoff • F. Marion Crawford
... D. freighter Ulema taken ground during Harmattan on Akakus Range. Under plates strained. Crew at Ghat ...
— Actions and Reactions • Rudyard Kipling |
