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Mufti
Arabic:
muftin
A religious leader in Islam, dealing with juridical questions.
The mufti is the only who can issue a fatwa, which gives him the power of handling cases where there is doubt among other Muslim learned. The root for 'fatwa' and 'mufti' is the same: f-t-w.
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