Mohammad Khurasani, a spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban, said Saturday that the executive council of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan appointed Mufti Noor Wali Mahsud as its new chief and Mufti Mazhim, aka Mufti Hafzullah, as his deputy.
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Mufti also branded the legislation "undue interference seemingly to punish Muslims".
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The students read religious texts, and the mufti interjected with commentary.
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"Poland is not ready for immigrants," said Mr. Miskiewicz, the mufti.
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He is a son of Amani El-Mufti of Milton, Ontario.
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It named Mufti Hazarat, a relatively unknown militant, as his deputy.
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The Grand Mufti of Egypt, Shawki Allam, condemned the perpetrators as traitors.
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When I think of a MUFTI, I think of an Islamic scholar.
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El Mufti believes these hurdles can create opportunities and mean less competition.
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Mr. Radcliffe, in his plaid shirt, is sporting authentic fact-checker mufti.
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Mufti Nemat was previously a religious teacher in General Dostum's home village.
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"This confrontational attitude - no talks, no discussion -has an impact," Mufti said.
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Stepping off the podium, he shook hands with Muslim leader Hafiz Mufti Ali.
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Word soon came from Jerusalem: Palestine's grand mufti could not find the moon.
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Their cases were referred to the Grand Mufti, Egypt's highest Islamic legal official.
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Mehbooba Mufti's daughter Iltija Mufti confirmed her mother's detention under the law on Twitter.
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One of these journalists recently was grilling a famous mufti opposed to the bill.
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Bewildered, the mufti said: Are you a woman, or are you a TV journalist?
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The grand mufti, the state's highest religious official, has a regular television show, too.
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It was supposed to get better under the state's last chief minister, Mehbooba Mufti.
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In numerous religious rulings, the late grand mufti, Abdulaziz Bin Baz, condemned the Shia community.
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Everyone is middle-aged or older, mostly dressed in 21st-century studio or academic mufti.
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Yet Mufti Fayezullah, a Hefazat leader, says its activists were not targeted in the crackdown.
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Last month, during Ramadan, she posted photos of herself with Mufti Abdul Qavi, a cleric.
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Cinemas and concerts are "a depravity", said the kingdom's grand mufti, Abdulaziz al-Sheikh, in January.
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Of the 75 defendants referred to the Mufti, 44 are jailed and 31 are at large.
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Emin Zejnulahu, mufti of the demolished mosque in Zemun Polje, said Muslims would not be deterred.
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She was professional enough not to retort: Are you a mufti, or just another old fart?
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The raids were not part of a coordinated effort, Mufti Mahmud Khan, the battalion spokesman, said.
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Grand Mufti Abdulaziz Al al-Sheikh, the kingdom's top religious authority, praised the executions as "just".
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Apparently, if Mufti indicates she's found a truffle but then walks away, it means it's rotten.
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Their henchmen have beheaded defiant sheikhs and killed confidants of Libya's grand mufti, who supports the GNA.
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Responding to Khamenei, Saudi Arabia's top religious authority, the Grand Mufti, described Iran's leaders as not Muslims.
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In the 1990s, Saudi Arabia's grand mufti, Abdul Aziz ibn Baz, issued a fatwa condemning suicide operations.
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I even met the Mufti of Bulgaria, an Islamic scholar who interprets and expounds on Islamic law.
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Every time Mufti catches a scent of a truffle, she's down on her belly in a flash.
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In his statement on the show, the grand mufti equated chess with gambling, which is forbidden in Islam.
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Saudi Arabia's top religious authority, Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al al-Sheikh, has called cinemas and concerts corrupting.
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" The grand mufti called chess "a waste of time, money and a reason for the enmity between players.
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"Today marks the darkest day in Indian democracy," ex-chief minister Mufti, under house arrest, said on Twitter.
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A tenet of Egyptian law says that the mufti has to approve all death sentences before they proceed.
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"We went to the higher-ups in the government," Mufti Fayez Ullah, the group's joint secretary general, said.
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The Grand Mufti, the highest official of religious law in Egypt, condemned the "deplorable terrorist attack" on the cathedral.
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It named them as Mufti Abdul Raoof and Hamad Azhar, who one ministry official said was the leader's son.
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Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Friday defended the laws of the state, saying any change would not be acceptable.
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According to Tirana's mufti, Ylli Gurra, up to 150 Albanian nationals have joined Islamic State (IS) jihadists in Syria.
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But Mufti Husein Kavazovic, head of the Islamic community in Bosnia, says people of faith cannot achieve peace alone.
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One of the villages, Mufti, was captured by mid-day, the Kurdistan Region Security Council said in a statement.
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Saudi Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al al-Sheikh appeared on television soon after to describe the executions as just.
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The grand mufti of Jerusalem, Sheikh Muhammad Hussein, was detained along with another cleric, according to local news reports.
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Pakistan arrested 44 people, including Mufti Abdul Rauf, the brother of Masood Azhar, the chief of Jaish-e-Muhammad.
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The Grand Mufti, the highest official of religious law in Egypt, also condemned the "deplorable terrorist attack" on the cathedral.
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The state's chief minister, Mehbooba Mufti, herself a Kashmiri, insisted that a mere 5% of Kashmir's people backed the protests.
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Baloch was a divisive figure within Pakistan and made headlines when she met with senior religious cleric Mufti Abdul Qawi.
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In the center, on a raised armchair, sat the mufti, his feet in brown socks and perched on a pillow.
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Tahera Mufti, the Chief of Public Affairs at Canada's national intelligence agency, CSIS, told VICE Atomwaffen is on its radar.
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" Another prominent theologian, the former mufti of Istanbul, Mustafa Cagrici, also wrote about "the growing gap between religiosity and morality.
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Another contributor is Mustafa Ceric, the grand mufti emeritus of Sarajevo, who makes a pointed rejoinder to Western critics of Islam.
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He set up a new body, the Islamic Community, to minister to Muslim affairs, and appointed a mufti to run it.
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THE grand mufti of Saudi Arabia recently added a surprising new item to the familiar list of worries plaguing his region.
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"He also had plans to take a flight, keeping passengers as hostage, (and heading) to some Middle Eastern country," Mufti said.
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Jerusalem's grand mufti, Mohammad Hussein, was arrested shortly after Friday prayers, which were held on a street outside the Old City.
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Mr. Bajrami comes from a prominent religious family — his father was the first chief mufti of Yugoslavia during the Communist period.
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As the killings on all sides have increased, the state's chief minister, Mehbooba Mufti, has found herself more and more isolated.
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Mufti Muhammad Naeem, the head of Karachi's biggest religious seminary, said Islamic jurisprudence was clear about fasting during hot summer months.
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Mufti Mahmud Khan, said on Sunday that Colonel Azad was in critical condition and had been flown to Singapore for treatment.
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The Twitter account of Mehbooba Mufti, one of the Kashmiri politicians who have been detained, was scathing about the European delegation's visit.
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The Mufti Office of the Muslim Denomination also opposed ratification and said: "gender topics are dangerous, bottomless traps" that endanger Bulgarian society.
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A court official says Judge Mohammad Pervez Khan on Wednesday ordered Mufti Abdul Qawi to jail until his next hearing Nov. 7.
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Egyptian law requires any capital sentence to be referred to Grand Mufti Shawqi Allam for an opinion before executions can take place.
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The grand mufti is in charge of issuing religious edicts as well as issuing a non-binding opinion on all capital sentences.
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Grand Mufti arrested The Al-Aqsa Mosque compound is within the closed area so Muslims were unable to hold Friday prayers there.
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The mufti, who is in charge of the institute, is the top authority on Muslim law in Jerusalem and among Muslim Palestinians.
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"The Diyanet of today has a more Islamist, more Arab worldview," says Mustafa Cagrici, the mufti of Istanbul from 2003 to 2011.
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Some scholars in Turkey, India and Britain have labeled them impermissible; Egypt's Grand Mufti declared in January they should not be traded.
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He condemns the Mufti of Jerusalem for rejecting a 1939 British White Paper that went a significant way toward meeting Palestinian demands.
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Mufti Fayez Ullah, of Hefazat-e-Islam, said he had been compelled to go over those people's heads to high-ranking officials.
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Mawlawi Habiburrahman, commander of Islamic State forces in the north, and another commander called Mufti Nematullah were among those who surrendered, they said.
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Clergy controversy She made more headlines after posting selfies on her Instagram account with Mufti Abdul Qavi, a senior member of the clergy.
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Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, chief minister of Indian-controlled Kashmir and one of India's best-known Muslim politicians, died on Thursday in New Delhi.
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Mufti Sayeed's party is in a coalition in Kashmir with the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Hindu nationalist party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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Three militants, including Mufti Abdul Hannan, the head of the Harkat-ul Jihad Islami group, were convicted and sentenced to death in 2008.
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Chess is a "waste of time" and causes enmity between players, according to the grand mufti of Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Abdulaziz al-Sheikh.
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State chief minister Mehbooba Mufti has said a tribal policy is being drafted, and that nomadic tribes cannot be evicted without government permission.
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On Fridays, he preached at a mosque near his mother's house and welcomed visitors who came to see his uncle, the grand mufti.
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Conservative critics, including the head of Saudi Arabia's religious authority, grand mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz al-Sheikh, are staunchly against the cinema ban lift.
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The chief minister of the state, Mehbooba Mufti, said in a televised interview that she had spoken to the defense minister on Wednesday.
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"They need to overcome these challenges in their business model...and build alternative support systems," says Khaled El Mufti, CEO of Tatweer Research.
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The man announced by the Taliban as successor to Mr. Sayed is Mufti Noor Wali Mehsud, who also goes by Abu Mansoor Asim.
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Fahmy, the judge, said case documents pertaining to all six would be sent to the Grand Mufti, Egypt's top religious authority, for his review.
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Three months before she was killed, she appeared via video link on a talk show to debate a prominent Muslim cleric, Mufti Abdul Qavi.
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The chief mufti, who called for an end to church-building on the peninsula after Kuwait built one in 2012, judiciously holds his tongue.
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The press office for the Grand Mufti said that Le Pen's aides had been informed beforehand of the head covering requirement before the meeting.
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Last year, Saudi Arabia's grand mufti, the kingdom's top religious authority, said the leaders of Iran, Saudi Arabia's regional Shi'ite rival, were not Muslims.
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Indian officials also placed top regional leaders, including the former chief ministers Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti, under house arrest amid the mounting tensions.
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" Tomasz Miskiewicz, the mufti of Poland and a Lipka Tatar, said that "the situation of Tatar society here in Poland is on the edge.
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The sentence awaits approval from the country's grand mufti, Shawki Ibrahim Abdel-Karim Allam — Egypt's highest religious leader and official interpreter of Islamic law.
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"Terrorism has hit a new low with Shujaat's killing," Mehbooba Mufti, the chief minister of the state of Jammu and Kashmir, wrote on Twitter.
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" The state's chief minister, Mehbooba Mufti, arrived at the scene shortly after the attack, which she called "an assault on our values and traditions.
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Maybe. But with Mufti at her side and Cocker Spaniels eager to be trained, I'm backing Team Dean to lead a British truffle revolution.
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Responding to a question by Saudi newspaper Makkah, Saudi Arabia's Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al al-Sheikh said he was not surprised at Khamenei's comments.
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Saudi's grand mufti, the kingdom's top cleric, was appearing on a religious TV channel, taking questions about faith and sin and that sort of thing.
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The Jammu and Kashmir state government, led by chief minister, Mehbooba Mufti has staunchly denied accusations that proper procedures have been skirted during the investigation.
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The court had in June recommended passing the death penalty to Egypt's top religious leader, the Grand Mufti, who can approve or reject the recommendation.
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The diplomats will not be given access to Omar Abdullah or Mehbooba Mufti, the leaders of the two political parties that have historically dominated Kashmir.
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"I strongly feel that there has to be a dialogue process internally as well as externally, with Pakistan," Mufti said in an interview on Friday.
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" Demonstrating that Hitler was determined to exterminate the Jews long before his meeting with the Grand Mufti, the paper rejected Mr. Netanyahu's comments as "historically inaccurate.
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Mehbooba Mufti, the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir State, expressed anguish over the loss of lives and emphasized the need for peace in the area.
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The unrest has put an uncomfortable spotlight on the state's chief minister, Mehbooba Mufti, who runs the government alongside Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party.
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The top cleric, Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al Sheikh, called them a "mercy to the prisoners" because the executions would save them from committing more evil acts.
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"Today marks the darkest day in Indian democracy," said one of the leaders placed under house arrest, Mehbooba Mufti, a former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir.
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But former Ottoman subjects in Greece continued to have their family matters regulated by the mufti, just as it had been in the era of the sultans.
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Massa Mufti, an education expert from Damascus who advises the UN, worries that there will be more bloodshed: "We are generating another cycle of radicalisation and violence."
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Hassan Al Banna's father was a student of the Grand Mufti of Egypt who was also a Grand Master of the United Lodge of Egypt, a freemason.
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In practice, this has meant that the Thracian Muslims' marital and inheritance matters have generally been dealt with under Islamic law, with a mufti adjudicating where necessary.
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And Mufti Mahmud Khan, a spokesman for the Rapid Action Battalion, the country's elite anticrime and antiterrorism unit, said the men were not in the unit's custody.
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" The chief minister of the northern Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, Mehbooba Mufti, said on twitter that "terrorism has hit a new low with Shujaat's killing.
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Hasm has also said it was behind an assassination attempt last month on Egypt's former Grand Mufti, Ali Gomaa, once one of the country's top religious authorities.
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In 2016, Saudi Arabia's grand mufti, the nation's top religious cleric, issued a ban on chess in 2016 because it is a form of gambling, he said.
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Local TV channels citing Press Trust of India reported that former Kashmiri chief ministers Mehbooba Mufti and Omar Abdullah had been detained at a state guest house.
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The elevation of the leader, Mufti Noor Wali Mehsud, comes after a United States drone strike in Afghanistan killed the group's previous leader, Mullah Fazlullah, this month.
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General Rawat assured Ms. Mufti that military officials would take action against those who tied Mr. Dar to the jeep, according to The Press Trust of India.
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Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Latif Derian, Lebanon's most senior Sunni cleric, told Mr. Khatib during a meeting on Sunday that he backed Mr. Hariri, Mr. Khatib said.
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Mufti, whose father was also a chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, said the tough stance by India would only lead to "some calm on the surface".
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The message includes brief statements form the leaders of Cyprus&apos Greek Orthodox, Latin, Armenian and Maronite churches and the Mufti who heads the island&aposs Muslim community.
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Hasm, about which little is publicly known, has claimed a handful of attacks this year including an attempt on the life of the former Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa.
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Okaz newspaper quoted the Grand Mufti, Sheikh Abdulaziz Al al-Sheikh as saying that the recent orders were necessitated by special conditions would not be in place forever.
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"Threat actors are seeking to influence the Canadian public and interfere with Canada's democratic institutions and processes," wrote Tahera Mufti, a spokesperson for CSIS, in an emailed statement.
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"Instead of blaming the Jews, he should look in his own backyard to the role played by the Grand Mufti in supporting Adolf Hitler's Final Solution," they added.
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A Malaysian mufti, or legal expert, recently said gender minorities should check their genitals if they are "confused" about which toilet to use, the New Straits Times reported.
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Asked about the document, CSIS spokeswoman Tahera Mufti did not address details about the industry meeting or the briefing official's description of physical threats to Canada's energy infrastructure.
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Mehbooba Mufti, chief minister of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, said the troubled region could benefit from the Chinese project as it would boost economic activity.
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Suits are often treated as synonymous with uniforms — the common mufti of the professional class — and, in the case of women's wear, as camouflage for femininity, or armor.
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Shortly after the announcement, Mehbooba Mufti, the top official in Jammu and Kashmir and the head of the Peoples Democratic Party, resigned from her post as chief minister.
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" Saudi Arabia's Grand Mufti, the country's leading religious cleric, has condemned Twitter as "the source of all evil and devastation," which serves only to spread "lies and falsehood.
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Mufti said India's general election - starting April 11 and whose results will be declared on May 23 - could delay the process of any inter-party talks on Kashmir.
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Mehbooba Mufti, the president of the People&aposs Democratic Party and the state&aposs top official, resigned after the BJP withdrew its support, paving the way for direct rule.
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Mufti Mahmud Khan, a spokesman for the Rapid Action Battalion, said security officials cordoned off part of Dhaka&aposs Mohammedpur area on Saturday and detained at least 100 suspects.
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Saturday&aposs decision in Cairo Criminal Court will now be referred to the Grand Mufti — the country&aposs top theological authority — for his non-binding opinion on the sentences.
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The Cairo Criminal Court referred the sentences to the Grand Mufti — the country&aposs top theological authority — for his non-binding opinion as is the norm in capital cases.
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The court set a verdict session for July 22, after referring its recommendation to the country's top religious authority, the Grand Mufti, for a non-binding legally-required opinion.
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Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, one of the scores of leaders detained since August, said on Twitter she hoped the lawmakers would be allowed free access.
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Saudi Arabia responded on Tuesday with a statement from the kingdom's top cleric, Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al Sheikh, who leads a council of Muslim scholars advising the king.
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"Some of the missing youngsters are sons of retired or serving army officials, bureaucrats and businessmen," Mufti Mahmud Khan, chief of the RAB's legal and media wing, told Reuters.
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A controversial coalition Jammu and Kashmir's Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti resigned shortly after the BJP announced it was ending its three-year alliance with her People's Democratic Party (PDP).
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The authorities also said they were investigating a high-ranking cleric, Mufti Abdul Qavi, who had appeared with Ms. Baloch in selfies taken in a hotel room last month.
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One of their commanders, Mufti Nemat, wearing a pink shalwar kameez and a knockoff of an Apple watch and holding a satellite phone, fielded calls steadily between giving interviews.
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Egypt requires that courts refer death sentences to the Grand Mufti to give a non-binding opinion to make sure the penalty is in line with the Islamic Sharia.
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Mufti Mahmud Khan, a spokesman for the Rapid Action Battalion security force, which has been given the job of monitoring online content in the run-up to the Dec.
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Each year, Muslim religious leaders and politicians from the Mufti to the head of the government take the chance to go to Ghriba to promote the message of interreligious tolerance.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's grand mufti, the top cleric for Sunni Muslims, said Saad al-Hariri's resignation as Prime Minister came amid difficult circumstances, Lebanese Al-Jadeed TV reported on Friday.
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"Several bombs were found attached to his body," the RAB's Legal and Media wing chief Mufti Mahmud Khan told Reuters, adding that an apparent suicide attack could have been foiled.
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Earlier, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and the Imam of al-Aqsa Mosque said they were satisfied with Israel's removal of metal detectors and other security measures opposed by Muslims.
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Mufti Muhamed Hamdi Jusufspahic, head of the Supreme Assembly of the Islamic Community of Serbia, said Serbia's byzantine bureaucracy and suspicion of Islam meant the cards were stacked against them.
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Following Saturday's ruling, a final decision is expected on June 18, after the sentence has been referred to the top religious authority, the Grand Mufti, for a non-binding opinion.
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Baloch's family had initially suspected the religious scholar Mufti Abdul Qavi of being behind the death after he was criticized and humiliated for taking selfies with Baloch, the BBC reported.
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He and other local officials said that two former Taliban commanders, Qari Hikmat and Mufti Nemat, had combined forces and switched their allegiance to the Islamic State in recent months.
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Early one morning in Grozny, I sat in an office off the cavernous main hall of the Kadyrov Mosque with Usman Osmaev, the republic's deputy mufti, who is thirty-eight.
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But, for the first time in more than 35 years the Grand Mufti and the country's top religious authority, Sheikh Abdulaziz Al al-Sheikh, did not deliver the main sermon.
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The grand mufti, Saudi Arabia's highest religious authority, publicly called commercial films a source of "depravity" and opposed the opening of movie theaters as recently as a few months ago.
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They were referring to Muslim Grand Mufti Haj Amin Husseini, a World War Two ally of Adolf Hitler, whose "Final Solution" led to the killing of six million Jews in Europe.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's former Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa, once one of the country's top religious authorities, survived an assassination attempt on Friday, security sources told Reuters and state television later reported.
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On Friday Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt and Bahrain designated as terrorists five Libyans including Tripoli Grand Mufti Sadiq al-Ghariani, an influential figure for anti-Haftar militias in western Libya.
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Sheikh Hamza, Falluja's revered grand mufti and Weston's most prized recruit to local governance, had refused to publicly denounce the Americans, knowing that doing so would unleash a spasm of violence.
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And the chief minister of the state, Mehbooba Mufti, said last week in the State Assembly that 71 civilians and 49 police officers had been killed over the past two years.
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Ikrema Sabri, a senior Muslim cleric and former grand mufti of Jerusalem, slammed the Israeli government's plan to dig under the Old City when the announcement was made in December 2017.
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Also excluded were believers who "deliver themselves up to the protection and service of another prince" in a foreign land—such as a "Mahometan" with "blind obedience to the Mufti of Constantinople".
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The Grand Mufti said in January that cinemas could open the door to "atheistic or rotten" foreign films and encourage the mixing of the sexes, but did not comment on Khatib's remarks.
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It was unclear when the fatwa by the grand mufti was issued, but it appeared to garner attention online in the run-up to a chess tournament scheduled for Friday in Mecca.
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Indian authorities banned public movements, shut down schools and colleges indefinitely and put two former chief ministers of J&K — Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti — under house arrest ahead of the announcement.
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"Fail to understand the need to pass the triple talaq bill especially since the Supreme Court had already declared it illegal," tweeted Mehbooba Mufti, former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir state.
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Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Latif Derian called for national unity and for waiting before taking any stance on the shock resignation, which Hariri announced in a broadcast from Saudi Arabia on Saturday.
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Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al al-Sheikh, who has repeatedly opposed women working and driving and said letting them into politics may mean "opening the door to evil", has yet to comment.
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The kingdom's grand mufti, Abdul Aziz Al Sheikh, was responding to a blistering attack on the Saudi authorities by Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, over the handling of pilgrimage to Mecca.
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A May 31 airstrike in the eastern Syrian city of Mayadin killed Turki al-Bin'ali, "the self proclaimed 'Grand Mufti,' or chief cleric of ISIS," according to a U.S. Central Command statement.
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" It's no wonder, then, that former J&K Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti — who was placed under house arrest this week — tweeted that the BJP's action "marks the darkest day in Indian democracy.
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An unknown assailant carrying a bomb entered the battalion's compound, where a few troops were staying and some construction was going on, said Commander Mufti Mahmud Khan, a spokesman for the unit.
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"The high court today upheld death sentences for three, including the HUJI leader Mufti Abdul Hannan, and life imprisonment for two others in the attack," Sheikh Moniruzzaman Kabir, a public prosecutor, told reporters.
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A panel of four judges headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha upheld the death sentences for the three, including the group's leader, Mufti Abdul Hannan, Deputy Attorney General Bashir Ahmed told reporters.
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Among the candidates to replace Mr. Adnani is Turki al-Binali, 31, one of the most senior clerics of the Islamic State, who is believed to have been appointed the group's chief mufti.
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The Palestinian leader during the Holocaust, Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini, closely collaborated with Nazi propagandists and organized thousands of troops to form Nazi-backed auxiliary military and support units to decimate Jews.
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Mehbooba Mufti, who was Jammu and Kashmir's chief minister until last year, called the decision the "darkest day in Indian democracy" and said it "reduces India to an occupation force" in the state.
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The country's top religious authority, Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al al-Sheikh, earlier in the week had described such a call as a crime against Sunni Islam and the teachings of the Koran.
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" It's no wonder, then, that former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti — who was placed under house arrest this week — tweeted that the BJP's action "marks the darkest day in Indian democracy.
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Egypt could swiftly emerge as an example of bold religious reforms, which Sisi launched with the Grand Mufti of Egypt and Al Azhar, one of the world oldest Islamic University based in Cairo.
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"The Mufti...also stressed that there is nothing good in song parties, for entertainment day and night and opening of movie houses at all times is an invitation to mixing of sexes," he added.
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"We have decided to widen the scope of the investigation and include Mufti Abdul Qavi in the probe," Azhar Ikram, the police chief in the town of Multan, where Baloch was killed, told Reuters.
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"We must hand in hand ... behind our leadership which we pray to God for it to be a wise one," Saudi Arabia's Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al al-Sheikh said, opening the pledging ceremony.
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Mufti Masum Billah, the chairman of the Bangabandhu Ulema Foundation, a religious nonprofit, said there was no need to worry about Islam's status as a state religion, since the Constitution protects freedom of religion.
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Ms. Mufti said that giving control to the governor would enable the Indian central government to exert more influence in Jammu and Kashmir, further alienating locals who were already suspicious of Indian security forces.
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On Tuesday, it was Turki al-Bin'ali, whom the American-led coalition called the "self-proclaimed grand mufti or chief cleric" of the Islamic State, killed in a May 31 airstrike in Mayadin, Syria.
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A former chief mufti of separatist Chechnya, he had supported the call for jihad against the Russians during the First Chechen War, only to switch sides and declare allegiance to Moscow in the Second.
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Almost 50 years after its unceremonious ending, "Lolita, My Love" is finally getting its New York debut as part of the York Theater Company's Musicals in Mufti series celebrating the Alan Jay Lerner centennial.
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Mufti Sayeed's party, the Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party, gained popularity in the restive region on a promise to bring a "healing touch," and he was praised for his efforts to bring about reconciliation.
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" Saudi Arabia's Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al al-Sheikh dismissed Iran's condemnations, telling Makkah, a local newspaper: "We have to understand that they are not Muslims ... their main enemies are the followers of Sunnah (Sunnis).
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Waheed-ur-Rehman Parra, an aide to Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, who governs in an alliance with Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party, said he remained hopeful that Delhi would launch a new dialogue.
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That's when the state government led by then-chief minister Mufti lost its majority and Jammu and Kashmir was put under the rule of its governor, effectively placing the state under New Delhi's direct rule.
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This is of special significance because it was organized by the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who shared Hitler's resolve to exterminate the Jews and subsequently became Hitler's personal guest in Berlin through the war years.
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In November 2018, Ms. Mufti, Kashmir's former chief minister, sent a fax to the governor — which she posted on social media — saying she had found enough allies and was ready to form a new government.
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In November 2018, Ms. Mufti, Kashmir's former chief minister, sent a fax to the governor — which she posted on social media — saying she had found enough allies and was ready to form a new government.
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"We must understand they are not Muslims, for they are the descendants of Majuws, and their enmity towards Muslims, especially the Sunnis, is very old," Saudi's grand mufti said, according to the AP news agency.
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Libya's Grand Mufti Sadiq Ghoryani, a senior cleric who commands some respect in western Libya and has openly backed the BDB, described the French presence as an "invasion", which he called on all Libyans to resist.
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Senior scholars have for the most part remained mum on plans for the sector, although the kingdom's Grand Mufti, its highest religious authority, cautioned in January against the corrupting influence of cinemas, concerts and gender mixing.
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Al'bir Rifkatovich Kurganov, a mufti, or Islamic legal scholar, in Moscow, has said that a French-style ban would be irrelevant for Russians, since practicing Muslims would not be visiting secular beaches in the first place.
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"This hearing will be a blow against peace, it will be a blow against law and order," said Mufti Fayezullah, the joint secretary general of Hefazat-e-Islam, a religious movement that helped organize the rallies.
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"The king came to Ramallah because Jerusalem is occupied," said the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Muhammad Ahmad Hussein, one of several Palestinian religious and political leaders who came to the presidential headquarters to welcome King Abdullah.
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Mufti Ismail Berdiyev, who heads a Muslim association for the North Caucasus region, said Wednesday that if FGM "could be applied to all women, that would be very good" in an interview with Interfax news agency.
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Yasser Mufti, executive director of new business development, has been named acting vice president of corporate planning, replacing Maashouq for an interim period, the sources said, speaking on condition of anonymity as the changes are not public.
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Last month, a court referred the files of Badie and other Brotherhood leaders in a separate case to Egypt's most senior Muslim religious authority, the Mufti, for his opinion on whether they should be sentenced to death.
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Rapid Action Battalion, the special security force of Bangladesh police, arrested him and three others, including his mother, said Mufti Mahmud Khan, a director of the RAB responsible for the legal and media wing of the force.
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In fact, nearly every Russian and Soviet deployment over the past half century, from the Prague Spring to Afghanistan, Chechnya and Ukraine, opened with a simple but effective trick: soldiers appearing first in mufti or unmarked uniforms.
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Mohammad Mufti Mahmud Khan, a spokesman for the Rapid Action Battalion, a Bangladeshi police force comprised of military personnel, said in an interview that investigators had taken Mr. Ahmed's fingerprint and matched it in a criminal database.
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After sweeping army advances over recent days [nL5N1E82DB] that pushed rebels far from the Old City where the mosque was on a front line, Syria's Grand Mufti Ahmed Badr al-Din Hassoun hailed its recapture by government forces.
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The comments by Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al al-Sheikh, published on his website, said cinemas and round-the-clock entertainment could open the door to "atheistic or rotten" foreign films and encourage the mixing of the sexes.
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A lower court vindicated the widow, but the country's highest tribunal decided otherwise: a Muslim in Greek Thrace was not merely entitled but obliged to arrange his affairs under Islamic law, as interpreted where necessary by a mufti.
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She traces the country's stringent laws to the siege of Mecca in 1979, when a group of rebels took over the Grand Mosque just before the Grand Mufti was about lead a congregation of 50,000 pilgrims in prayer.
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Mehbooba Mufti, the chief minister of the state of Jammu and Kashmir, said Friday that separatist leaders had ordered schools to be burned because they "want a generation of uneducated youth who can pelt stones" at the police.
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Mr. Afridi said the names of Mufti Abdur Raoof, the brother of Mr. Azhar, and Hammad Azhar, the son of Mr. Azhar, were included in a dossier that Indian authorities handed to Pakistan for investigations into the Feb.
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Saudi Arabia's Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al al-Sheikh, the highest religious authority in the country, said in remarks published on Wednesday that the leaders of regional rival Iran were not Muslims and saw Sunni Muslims as their enemy.
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He referred to a statement from Egypt's Grand Mufti, the country's highest religious authority, which said that any call for protests or destruction "is a full crime and illegal according to Islamic Sharia law", said MENA state news agency.
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The move comes just days after India's Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh announced an end to a ceasefire between militants and security forces proposed by the PDP's Mufti as a peace initiative during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State confirmed in a statement on Tuesday that it killed Turki al-Bin'ali, the group's self-proclaimed "Grand Mufti" or chief cleric, in an air strike in Syria on May 31.
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Mufti Mahmud Khan, director of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), told reporters that a man aged about 25 had blown himself up when challenged as he tried to enter the police special security force's base, which is still under construction.
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"We forged the BJP-PDP alliance after much deliberation under the vision, under the impression that the BJP is a large political party and that the Prime Minister has received a popular mandate," Mufti told reporters after submitting her resignation.
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As the protests faded, hospitals have been overwhelmed with people seeking treatment for eye injuries, and the Jammu and Kashmir chief minister, Mehbooba Mufti, has asked the health minister in New Delhi to send a team of specialists to Kashmir.
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In addition to Mr. Nemat, who is also known as Mufti Nematullah Qaweem, the other Islamic State military commander, Maulavi Habib ul-Rahman, surrendered to the Afghan government forces, according to Abdul Hafiz Khashi, the deputy police chief of Jowzjan Province.
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This included a trip to Lebanon last month where Le Pen had her first public meeting with a head of state, and created headlines when a meeting with the country's grand mufti was cancelled after she refused to wear a headscarf.
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From Al Jazeera: In comments to the Makkah newspaper published on Tuesday, Saudi Arabia's Grand Mufti Abdulaziz Al Sheikh was quoted as saying that Khamenei's remarks blaming Riyadh for last year's tragedy were "not surprising" because Iranians are descendants of Magi.
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The report says death sentences are approved by the Grand Mufti — Syria's most senior cleric — and then by either the minister of defense or the chief of staff of the army, who are deputized to act on behalf of President Bashar al-Assad.
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Morsy, 63, has not yet been sentenced, but it's unlikely that he'll get the death penalty because the sentence must be reviewed by Egypt's Grand Mufti, the country's premier religious legal authority, before a final verdict in the case can be delivered.
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DUBAI, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al al-Sheikh, the highest religious authority in the country, said in remarks published on Wednesday that the leaders of regional rival Iran were not Muslims and saw Sunni Muslims as their enemy.
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A mob of about 70 people armed with sticks and swords threatened to attack a mosque in the central town of Taung Dwin Gyi on Sunday evening, shouting "this is our country, this is our land", according to the mosque's imam, Mufti Sunlaiman.
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In the case of Hatijah Molla Salli, the 67-year-old woman locked in a property dispute with relatives of her deceased husband, the Greek Supreme Court ruled in 2013 that only a mufti could resolve a case relating to Muslim inheritance rights.
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The Ramadan cease-fire was sought by the chief minister of the Indian-administered part of Kashmir, Mehbooba Mufti, who has found herself increasingly isolated since her political alliance with India's dominant party, the nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, has failed to lower violence.
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The country's Minister of Religious Endowments, Mohamed Mokhtar Gomaa, has been very outspoken theologically on the need to protect Christian churches, and the country's senior Islamic jurist -- theGrand Mufti -- ordered a rare death sentence for a terrorist convicted of killing a Coptic priest.
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"We stress our absolute rejection of ... all measures by the Occupation (Israel) that would change the historical and religious status in Jerusalem and its sacred sites," the Palestinian grand mufti, acting Palestinian chief justice and Jordanian-run Waqf religious trust said in a joint statement.
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Mufti Abdul Hannan, the head of the banned Harkat-ul Jihad Islami group, Sharif Shahedul and Delwar Hossain were convicted and sentenced to death in 2008 for the attack, which took place on May 21, 153, after Friday prayers in the northeastern district of Sylhet.
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Over lunch at a conference in Suleymania last weekend, the first minister of the unified peshmerga forces, General Kamal Mufti, who is now 87, urged the United States to expand its existing base at Erbil International Airport into a full-scale Air Force Base.
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The government is prosecuting 739 people for participation in the protests Before the verdict can be finalized and death sentences carried out, Egypt's penal code requires the Grand Mufti, the country's leading Islamic authority, to issue a religious opinion on the matter, according to Ahram.
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" The grand mufti addressed the issue on his call-in show, saying that the veil was "a necessary order and an Islamic creation" and calling on the kingdom's television channels to ban content that "corrupts the religion and the morals and values of society.
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The latest call came from Egypt's Grand Mufti Shawki Allam, who issued an official fatwah Monday, declaring trading in Bitcoin to be the equivalent of "gambling," which is forbidden in Islam, "due to its direct responsibility in financial ruin for individuals," Egypt's Ahram reported.
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In a fatwa, or religious decree, issued in response to a question from a caller to a Saudi television show, Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al-Sheikh said that the game was "the work of Satan," like alcohol and gambling, despite its long history in the Middle East.
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Saudi Arabia's Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al al-Sheikh, the kingdom's top religious authority, last week described Iran's leaders as not Muslims, after Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei criticized Saudi Arabia over a crush at the haj last year that killed at least 700 pilgrims.
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After his death, Ismail Menk, the Grand Mufti of Zimbabwe, the African country's highest Islamic religious authority, tweeted his condolences to Ali's family, as did Nazem Kadri, a Muslim-Canadian hockey player for the Toronto Maple Leafs, and Linda Sarsour, a Muslim-American civil rights activist.
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Mehbooba Mufti, who was chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir from early 2014 to June last year when Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist party withdrew support for her regional party, said an ongoing crackdown on militants and those supporting secession could further alienate the people.
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Either way, however, we are edging into a time when it is possible to conceive of an era in which women not only run the world (Sorry, could not end this without the de rigueur nod to Beyoncé), but also don't have to don mufti to do it.
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The current grand mufti, Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah al-Sheikh, is also on record advocating against Saudis' joining groups fighting overseas and, in keeping with traditional Salafi teachings, has called on all Muslims to remain obedient to the legitimate leader's dictates and avoid any form of organized political activism.
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The 62-year-old royal, a son of the king and an older half-brother of the crown prince, told Reuters in a recent interview about ongoing cooperation with senior Muslim scholars including bimonthly discussions with the Grand Mufti, the kingdom's top religious figure, about the latest "discoveries".
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An "immoral" threat to traditional values After weeks of hope, the declaration by Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al Sheikh -- the most senior and influential Muslim religious and legal authority in Saudi Arabia -- that cinemas (along with concerts) were "immoral" and a threat to traditional values once again broke my heart.
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One of the Islamic State commanders, Mufti Nemat, was reached by cellphone after his surrender, and he confirmed that he and 200 to 250 of his fighters had turned themselves in to the government after the battle in northern Afghanistan, in which 40 of his insurgents had been killed by the Taliban.
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The four leaders include two former chief ministers of Jammu and Kashmir - Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti - and two regional party leaders, Ali Mohmmad Sagar and Sartaj Madni, the officials said The four were originally held under a law that allows a maximum detention of six months and their terms were about to expire.
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It is a hard book to put down, perhaps because it has a certain uneasy moral short-circuiting of its own: again, there are no references, so fact and fiction are allowed to trade uniform and mufti; and Carrère's pumped-up admiration of Limonov's often cruel escapades seems, at times, like the wan intellectual's envy of bloody warfare.
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The events may have been playing out in the proverbial middle of nowhere, but that was the point: A movement, or cult, of thousands of post-'60s seekers in orange and purple mufti had descended upon a thin population of ranchers and retirees, who took on the mantle of frontier yeomen protecting American values against foreign invasion.
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Though it may be news to Secretary of State John KerryJohn Forbes KerryA lesson of the Trump, Tlaib, Omar, Netanyahu affair Trump's winning weapon: Time The Memo: O'Rourke looks to hit reset button MORE, this has been going on since the 1920s, when the Mufti of Jerusalem regularly used the "al-Aqsa mosque is in danger" libel to provoke riots against Jews.
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Instead, the clerics took advantage of the Saudi conflict with pan-Arabism in the 1950s and 1960s and the bounteous oil revenues to modernize the religious establishment by creating new institutions such as the office of Grand Mufti, a fatwa bureaucracy, and religious schools and universities like the Islamic University of Medina and Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University in Riyadh.
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