Ulema

Ulema (, , singular: , , "scholar") (The people of Islamic Knowledge) refers to the educated class of Muslim legal scholars engaged in the several fields of Islamic studies. They are best known as the arbiters of shari‘a law. While the ulema are well versed in legal jurisprudence being Islamic lawyers, some of them also go on to specialize in other sciences, such as philosophy, dialectical theology or Quranic hermeneutics or explanation. The fields studied, and the importance given them, will vary from tradition to tradition, or even from seminary to seminary.
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Noun
1. the body of mullahs (Muslim scholars trained in Islam and Islamic law) who are the interpreters of Islam's sciences and doctrines and laws and the chief guarantors of continuity in the spiritual and intellectual history of the Islamic community
(synonym) ulama
(hypernym) body
(member-meronym) Mullah, Mollah, Mulla

n. ulema, mullah, teacher or learned man of the sacred Islamic law, Muslim scholar interpreter of the doctrines of Islam

(n.)
A college or corporation in Turkey composed of the hierarchy, namely, the imams, or ministers of religion, the muftis, or doctors of law, and the cadis, or administrators of justice.
  

= mullah.
Nota: Doctor o maestro de la ley musulmana.
Ex: Iran's mullahs have approved sex-change operations despite their conservative Muslim and cultural beliefs.