| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| mufti1 |
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| SYLLABICATION: | muf·ti |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  m f t , m f- |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. muf·tis
A Muslim scholar who interprets the shari’a. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Arabic muft , one who gives legal opinions, active participle of ’aft , to decide by legal opinion. See ptw in Appendix II.
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