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sheikh ul-Islam

sheikh 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 sheikh ul-Islam

pluralsheikhs ul-Islam

Questions about sheikh ul-Islam

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

Words near sheikh ul-Islam in the dictionary

  1. sheikdom
  2. sheikdoms
  3. sheikh
  4. sheikh al-Islam
  5. Sheikh Jarrah
  6. sheikh ul-Islam
  7. sheikha
  8. sheikhas
  9. sheikhdom
  10. sheikhdoms
  11. sheikhlike

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sheikh 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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