Tuesday word: Mufti

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Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2024

Mufti (noun)
muf·ti [muhf-tee]

noun plural muf·tis.
1. civilian clothes, in contrast with military or other uniforms, or as worn by a person who usually wears a uniform.
2. a Muslim jurist expert in the religious law.
3. (in the Ottoman Empire) a deputy of the chief Muslim legal adviser to the Sultan.
4. (initial capital letter) Grand Mufti.

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Origin: First recorded in 1580–90, mufti is from the Arabic word mufti literally, “a person who delivers a judgment,” originally a Muslim legal adviser; sense of mufti def 1 arises from the legal adviser being a civil official

Example Sentences
At the end of his prayer, the grand mufti whispered aloud: “May God accept it.”
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In 2000, the then-grand mufti insisted the earth was flat and disk-shaped and the sun revolved around it.
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Unfortunately, Grand Mufti Abdulaziz al-Sheikh and his colleagues who issued the fatwa against The 99 fit that description.
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What he calls a “papery palace of stories” sustains identity and ties Mufti to place.
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Mufti later describes the violence devastating his country as “a clash of civilizations inside Pakistan.”
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