Mufti

//ˈmʌfti// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Acronym of Minimum Use of Force and Tactical Intervention. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Noun
  1. 1
    A Muslim scholar and interpreter of sharia law, who can deliver a fatwa. countable

    "Mujtahidd's online claims have prompted an aggressive backlash against social media from the Saudi religious establishment. The grand mufti of Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Abdul-Aziz al-Sheikh, said in January that Twitter was a platform for "promoting lies" and a "dangerous practice" that should be avoided by Muslims. Commentators have described the phenomenon as symbolic of the growing political debate about use of Twitter in Saudi Arabia."

  2. 2
    civilian dress worn by a person who is entitled to wear a military uniform wordnet
  3. 3
    A civilian dress when worn by a member of the military or the police, or casual dress when worn by a pupil of a school who normally would wear uniform. Australia, British, New-Zealand, uncountable

    "He had a suit of summer mufti, and a broad-brimmed blue beaver hat looped with leaves broken from the hedgerows in the lanes, and a Leander scarf tucked full of flowers: loosestrife, meadowrue, orchis, ragged-robin."

  4. 4
    a jurist who interprets Muslim religious law wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish مفتی (müfti), from Arabic مُفْتِي (muftī, “fatwa-deliverer”, literally “deliverer of formal opinion”).

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