As he failed to appear, the Divan caused the Grand Mufti to launch the thunder of excommunication against him.
GRAND MUFTI One of the company is chosen as Grand Mufti.
He could have brought to sup cheerfully together a Corsican and a Genoese,--a representative of Geneva and a negative man, the mufti and an archbishop.
Only a few dandies fell off, not being able to conceive an existence of pleasure from which the joy of being patronised by cavalry officers in mufti was absent.
You noticed it even more when he wore mufti and stuck his hands in his pockets as he was doing now.
But the Mufti replied that "when a Sultan took to drink it was permissible for all to do the same and for poets to celebrate it.
It will be seen that of the twenty-five Sultans after Solyman eleven were deposed, and in almost every case the Mufti gave his legal sanction.
The Mufti issued a fetva which declared that no treaty of this kind with an infidel was binding on the Sultan.
They obtained a fetva from the Mufti justifying this on the ground of his incapacity and extravagance.
He was only with difficulty induced to revoke the order by the Mufti Djemali.
The attention of the Mufti was called to this, and he was asked to censor the poem as contrary to the injunctions of the Koran.
The Mufti replied by a fetva in the laconic word "Yes.
He further fortified his position by getting from the Mufti a fetva sanctioning by anticipation all his measures.
The Sultan himself and his Grand Vizier and principal ministers and generals were in favour of accepting the terms as offered, but the Mufti and the whole body of the ulemas were vehemently opposed to them.
As the Mufti could be deposed by the Sultan and then be put to death, this power could be very rarely used by him.
IV After routine morning duties, Joe Mauser returned to his billet and mystified Max Mainz by not only changing into mufti himself but having Max do the same.
He, like Joe, wore mufti and now extended his hand to be shaken.
We ourselves discarded seamen's clothes for the mufti worn when we escaped from the Turkish guards.
Wearing my suit of mufti and the felt hat which I bought on the day I escaped, White shook hands and left me, after a reminder that if he were captured my clothes would go to prison with him.
But the Sultan told him that he was himself the Head of the Church, and that he would make a new ordinance, bidding the Mufti swallow what was offered him, or take the consequences of disobedience.
I bought a whole handful for a few paras; and having seen them dug out of their cement by themufti who sold them, I can vouch for their being genuine.
I remember once meeting the Mohammedan Mufti of Beirût in Dr.
Sheik Gemaleddin, mufti of Mocha, is said to have discovered the virtues of coffee about 1454, and to have promoted the use of the drink in Arabia.
There was a general renewal of coffee drinking; religious devotees, preachers, lawyers, and the mufti himself indulging in it, their example being followed by the whole court and the city.
The mufti decided the question in favor of the zealots, and coffee was forbidden by law.
This time, however, appeared a mufti who was unfriendly to coffee.
The mufti of Aden, being both an officer of the court and a divine, undertook, with some heat, a defense of coffee; but he was clearly in an unpopular minority.
The lucky Arab gathered as many berries as he could, and having arrived at Aden, informed the mufti of his discovery.
Only the mufti spoke out in the meeting in its favor.
Then came a mufti less scrupulous or more knowing than his predecessor, who declared that coffee was not to be looked upon as coal, and that the drink made from it was not forbidden by the law.
The Mufti would feast himself upon other women, and keep me fasting.
My chattels are come into my hands again, and my conscience will serve me to sell them twice over; any price now, before the Mufti come to claim them.
Say then, believers, will you have a captain for your Mufti, or a Mufti for your captain?
She whom thyMufti taxed to have no soul; Let Afric now be judge.
The Mufti afterwards mentions Ximenes, Albornoz, and cardinal Wolsey, by name.
Finally the mufti had the book condemned by jurisconsults who had not read it, and the author was ordered not to appear in court for 800 years[7].
Dissembling his true feelings, Yakoob Beg sent a message requesting the presence of the Mufti in his camp.
They were received with consideration, but deep down in the breast of Yakoob Beg there lurked either an inveterate distrust of, or dislike to, the Mufti Habitulla.
No doubt the waitress at the terminus was rather amused by the arrival of three travel-stained creatures, one in mufti and two in uniform, whose first demand was for glasses of clear, cold water.
Immediately after his apostasy he was obliged, under the direction of the mufti Vanni, to acquire Mahometan ways, and guard carefully against any appearance of inclination to Judaism and the Jews.
The mufti Vanni instructed them in the Mahometan religion.
The Kaimakam conveyed the intelligence to the sultan, Mahomet IV, and the course to be pursued with regard to Sabbatai was maturely considered, the mufti Vanni being also admitted to aid the deliberations.
I possess a special permit from the Grand Mufti to call it the Mosque of Omar.
But many of the Moslem leaders are as dignified and human as many of the Zionist leaders; the Grand Mufti is a man I cannot imagine as either insulting anybody, or being conceivably the object of insult.
The Chief Mufti perhaps may save his life, but we three others shall not see the dawn of another day.
Unfurl the banner of the Prophet in front of the Gate of the Seraglio, let the Chief Mufti and Ispirizade open the Aja Sophia and the Mosque of Achmed, and let the imams call the people to prayer.
Halil permits the Chief Mufti to live, but he demands death for the three others," said he.
The Chief Mufti did not believe it to be possible to lead the host to battle just then; but he wished it to be withdrawn from Stambul, lest it should be affected by the spirit of rebellion.
The generals meanwhile slept in the Hall of Audience, Damadzadi lay sick in the apartment of Prince Murad, and the Mufti and the Ulemas remained in the barracks of the bostanjis.
As was meet and right, the Chief Mufti was the first to speak.
At about the same hour, three softas awoke the Chief Mufti and Ispirizade, and laid before them a letter written on parchment which they had discovered lying in the middle of a mosque.
Damad Ibrahim, and with that he kissed the hand of the Grand Seignior, and both he and the Chief Mufti withdrew.
It seemed as if, while the Chief Mufti was speaking, he had not heard a single word of the passionate discourse that had been addressed to him.
It was now the duty of the Grand Vizier to elect a new Chief Muftifrom among the Ulemas.
This copy the Chief Mufti brought to the Sultan, and gave into his hands the needle with which the august ceremony was to be accomplished.
The Chief Muftientered first, and after him came the Grand Vizier, Damad Ibrahim.
At the gate of the Seraglio the Chief Mufti said to the Grand Vizier sorrowfully: "It had been better for us both had we never grown grey!
The mufti reflected profoundly, and then replied: "I advise thee first to take at least one year to reflect upon thy project.
The wise mufti stroked his venerable beard and exclaimed: "Selim, Selim, thou hast been played upon by a swindler, to whom thou hast imprudently confided thy generous thoughts.
The Mufti Vanni--a priestly enthusiast--proposed that they should induce him to follow in the footsteps of Nehemiah, and come over to Islam.
One day the Sultan, grand and grim, Ordered the Mufti brought to him.
The mufti has of late years denounced the use of opium, and the devotees to its sublime intoxication have either conquered the habit, or what is more probable, indulge it in more secret places.
He came back too much enlightened, and themufti immediately procured his exile, for infidelity.
There were two fellows in mufti standing close to the skipper on the submarine's deck.
The white flag's down, and two fellows in mufti have leapt overboard.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mufti" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
