mufti

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The British believed that as the mufti, al-Husseini would owe the British and would therefore be compliant with British rule under the Mandate in Palestine.

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  1. noun A Muslim scholar who interprets the shari'a.
  2. noun Civilian dress, especially when worn by one who normally wears a uniform.

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  • This is the first time I've heard the word mufti applied to "casual day" in offices, probably because mufti is more commonly heard in the United Kingdom than in the United States. —  The Word Detective
  • A mufti is a Muslim judge, from the Arabic word meaning "to give a legal decision," the same word that gave fatwa or fetwa (religious decree), brought to popular attention by the Iranian death sentence proclaimed against the author Salman Rushdie some years ago Just how an Arabic word for a Muslim jurist came to mean "casual dress" is a bit unclear. —  The Word Detective
  • A few servants in mufti, a whole sweating band of Boers might not have been sufficient to assist Agatha with her "things." —  Martha Grimes - The Old Silent
  • We did not relish the notion of being caught in mufti, and looked round for a door of escape. —  The Romance of a Pro-Consul
  • The grand mufti, the head of Saudi Arabia's highest religious authority, branded the popular show "subversive" and "anti-Islamic" and said anyone who broadcast it was "an enemy of God and his Prophet". —  AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Arabic muftī, one who gives legal opinions, active participle of 'aftā, to decide by legal opinion; see ptw in Semitic roots.
  2. Probably from mufti1.

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  1. from Arabic muftī (later Turkish Hindustani muftī), a magistrate (see def. 1), one who gives a response, from mu-, a formative prefix, + - afti, judge (later fetwah, a judgment, doom: see fetwa).
  2. apparently for *mufti-dress, the dress of a mufti, i. e. civil offlcer or civilian. See mufti.
 

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