Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A Muslim scholar who interprets the shari'a.
- n. Civilian dress, especially when worn by one who normally wears a uniform.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A Mohammedan law-officer whose duty it was to expound the law which the kadi was to execute.
- n. In India, citizen's dress worn by officers when off duty: now commonly used in this sense in the British army.
Wiktionary
- n. countable (Islam) A Muslim scholar and interpreter of shari’a law, who can deliver a fatwa
- n. uncountable (UK, New Zealand) Civilian dress when worn by a member of the military, or casual dress when worn by a pupil of a school who normally would wear uniform
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An official expounder of Mohammedan law.
- n. One of the chief legal advisers to the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
- n. Colloq. Eng. Ordinary civilian dress when worn by persons who serve in a uniformed service, such as the military or police. It originally was used in reference to British naval or military officers, and originated with the British service in India.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a jurist who interprets Muslim religious law
- n. civilian dress worn by a person who is entitled to wear a military uniform
Etymologies
- From Arabic المفتي (al-múftī ) (definite form). (Wiktionary)
- Arabic muftī, one who gives legal opinions, active participle of 'aftā, to decide by legal opinion; see ptw in Semitic roots.Probably from mufti1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“A flunkey in mufti is as unseemly an object as a soldier on furlough, with his jacket unbuttoned and his neat stock replaced by a coloured neckerchief.”
“In 2008, Umar left for South Africa to pursue a two-year master's degree in Islamic jurisprudence and earned the title "mufti.”
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“Predominantly old soldiers and, allowing for the dreadful appearance that men drilling in mufti always present, not a bad lot.”
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“He was embarrassed in 2006 when the Saudi daily inaccurately described him as the "mufti" - i.e. the chief Islamic religious official - of California.”
“All Salah needs to become a mufti is the approval of the chief judge, or grand mufti, Ahmad Al-Tayyeb, but so far he has remained silent.”
“Another Guantánamo detainee, also captured in Pakistan in 2001 and later released to a Saudi rehabilitation program is Ibrahim Suleiman al-Rubaysh, 30, who also disappeared and is now described as the mufti, or theological guide, to Al Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula.”
International Herald Tribune - World News, Analysis, and Global Opinions
“He and his companion-sentry under the other arch were aware of officers in "mufti" on the opposite sidewalk, and kept their eyes immovably to the front.”
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“There are the sentries to be squared, and the fellow who provides you with a suit of 'mufti'.”
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“The resplendent uniforms of the members totally eclipsed that of the Duke, who was in "mufti"; but he readily understood that the division of attention was really not attributable to us.”
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“Any one looking at him in 'mufti' would exclaim, 'what an unfortunate object!' and perhaps offer him a penny, while in his hunting habiliments lords would hail him with, 'Well, Tom, how are you?' and baronets ask him”
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