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MUFTI , a consulting canon-lawyer in Islam
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opinion is respected and whose advice is sought can give fatwas. But generally in a Muslim state there are muftis specifically appointed by the government, one for each school of canon law in each place. Each of these renders opinions in accordance with the law-books of his school;2 The use of the word for plain or civilian clothes worn instead of uniform is originally Anglo-Indian. It may have been suggested by the loose flowing robes of the stage " mufti," and thus Implied any easy dress worn by an officer when out of uniform. he has no scope for free interpretation; everything is fixed there, and he must follow the precedents of the elders. In Turkey there is a chief
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Constantinople . He is, in a sense, the head of the ecclesiastical side of the state, that controlled by canon law; while the grand vizier
See Juynboll, De mohammedaansche Wet., 40 sqq.; De Slane's trans. of Ibn Khaldun's Prolegomenes, I. lxxviii. 447 seq.; Turkey in Europe, by " Odysseus," 131 seq. ; Young
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