00.6-FOREWORD

FOREWORD    

“The ’ULEMA are the heirs of the prophets” - thus Mohammed is supposed to have spoken. To them falls the mission of binding and loosing . . . They are regarded as the authorized interpreters of the consensus. It is to them that the Faithful turn when in doubt, for the solution of cases of conscience or points of doctrine . . . The quadi is chosen from among the ’ulema. His Tribunal admits oral testimony alone; that of a non-Muslim is excluded. The supreme council of ’ulema is at the University of Al Azhar, Cairo.

- H. Lammens S. J. in Islam, pp. 101,102, 110.

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