Crossword-Solution: MUFTIS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Muftis | pl. | of Mufti |
We have 4 clues for the answer “MUFTIS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Islamic legal experts | 1 answer |
| Servicemen in "civvies." | 1 answer |
| Civilian clothes | 3 answers |
| Civvies. | 4 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with MUFTIS (5)
Turbaned Turks, mosques and minarets, muftis and cadis, veiled eastern ladies, Mohammedains and muezzins, Arabian Nights and attar of roses, bazars, dogs, and donkeys--these, I suppose, are what Constantinople suggests whenever its name is mentioned to any girl or boy of to-day,--the capital of modern Turkey, the city of the Sublime Porte.
Good information about what goes on in each Mosque, especially on Fridays, when the priests preach to the people, and a guard of honour placed at the gates of the Kazi, the three Muftis, and the Shaykh of the Azhar, are simple precautions sufficient to keep the Olema in order.
Under him are three Muftis,[FN#62] of the Hanafi, the Shafe'i, and the Maliki schools; the fourth, or Hanbali, is not represented here or at Cairo.[FN#63] Each of these officers receives as pay about two hundred and fifty piastres a month.
When the Sadaka and Aukaf (the alms and bequests) arrive at the town, they are committed by the Surrah, or [p.375]financier of the caravan, to the Muftis, the chief of the Khatibs, and the Kazi's clerk.
The Sultan personally witnessed the departure of the fleet; all the muftis prayed for the success of the expedition, as all the muftis here prayed for the success of the last general election.
Quotes with MUFTIS (2)
For thousands of years priests, rabbis and muftis explained that humans cannot overcome famine, plague and war by their own efforts. Then along came the bankers, investors and industrialists, and within 200 years managed to do exactly that.
Muftis and bishops should be like ripe camembert cheeses - a bit on the nose and not for the faint-hearted, but memorable!
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, WSJ.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1951–2019).