ULEMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ulema mean? 

• ULEMA (noun)
  The noun ULEMA has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: ULEMA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ULEMA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

ulama; ulema

Hypernyms ("ulema" is a kind of...):

body (a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity)

Meronyms (members of "ulema"):

Mollah; Mulla; Mullah (a Muslim trained in the doctrine and law of Islam; the head of a mosque)