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Definition of Grand mufti
1. Noun. The chief mufti of a district.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grand Mufti
Literary usage of Grand mufti
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern Egypt by Evelyn Baring Cromer (1908)
"CHAPTER XXXV THE MOSLEMS Classification of the population—The Turco-Egyptians—The
Egyptians —The hierarchy—The grand mufti—The head of the Kl-Azhar ..."
2. The New Palestine: An Authoritative Account of Palestine Since the Great War by William Denison McCrackan (1922)
"VII THE grand mufti Among those friends whom our party regretted to leave when
the time came to say good-bye to Jerusalem was certainly the grand mufti of ..."
3. One Hundred and Fifty Gymnastic Games by Ethel Perrin, Boston Normal School of Gymnastics (1902)
"Variations: grand mufti, In this game the teacher says, as she takes the movements,
either " Thus says the grand mufti" or " So says the grand mufti. ..."
4. The girl's own book by Lydia Maria Francis Child (1856)
"THUS SAYS THE grand mufti! THIS is a favourite game among children. One stands
up in a chair, who is called the grand mufti. He makes whatever motion he ..."
5. A Short History of the Near East: From the Founding of Constantinople (330 A by William Stearns Davis (1922)
"Higher than they, however, uplifted himself the grand mufti of Constantinople,
later better ... The grand mufti represented the great class of the ulemas ..."