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shaykh ul-Islam

shaykh ul-Islam is the alternative form of shaykh al-Islam.

Meaning of shaykh al-Islam

Noun

shaykh al-Islam (plural shaykhs al-Islam)

  1. (historical) An outstanding scholar of Islamic interpretation, jurisprudence, theology, etc.

Forms of shaykh ul-Islam

pluralshaykhs ul-Islam

Questions about shaykh ul-Islam

What is shaykh ul-Islam the alternative form of?
Shaykh ul-Islam is the alternative form of shaykh al-Islam.

Words near shaykh ul-Islam in the dictionary

  1. shaygets
  2. shaygetses
  3. shaygetz
  4. shaykh
  5. shaykh al-Islam
  6. shaykh ul-Islam
  7. shaykhdom
  8. shaykhdoms
  9. Shaykhi
  10. Shaykhis
  11. Shaykhism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shaykh ul-Islam (page history and authors); shaykh al-Islam (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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