head-mufti

Updated: May 13, 2025

The way in which the most important mufti places are filled and above all the position which the head-mufti of the Turkish Empire, the Sheikh-ul-Islam, holds at any particular period, may well serve as a touchstone of the influence of the canonists on public life.

C. Snouck Hurgronje - Mohammedanism: Lectures on Its Origin, Its Religious and Political Growth,: and Its Present State