Noun

A Sunni Muslim scholar and interpreter of shari’a law, who can deliver a fatwa

* {{quote-news

, year=2012 , date=April 19 , author=Josh Halliday , title=Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised? , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=Mujtahidd's online claims have prompted an aggressive backlash against social media from the Saudi religious establishment. The grand mufti of Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Abdul-Aziz al-Sheikh, said in January that Twitter was a platform for "promoting lies" and a "dangerous practice" that should be avoided by Muslims. Commentators have described the phenomenon as symbolic of the growing political debate about use of Twitter in Saudi Arabia.}}

(uncountable, AU, British, New Zealand) Civilian dress when worn by a member of the military, or casual dress when worn by a pupil of a school who normally would wear uniform

* 1919, , Duckworth, hardback edition, page 91

He had a suit of summer mufti , and a broad-brimmed blue beaver hat looped with leaves broken from the hedgerows in the lanes, and a Leander scarf tucked full of flowers: loosestrife, meadowrue, orchis, ragged-robin.

* 2002 . Wilma, Dave. "First nuclear submarine visits Seattle and crew secretly buys Bar's Leak on June 3, 1958." ''HistoryLink.org: Essay 3739 , 3 April 2002.

The sailors in mufti returned with 140 quarts of Bar's Leak, half of which was poured into the condenser.

Noun

(en noun)

An educated scholar of Islamic law; a member of the ulema class

* {{quote-news, 2007, February 25, Carla Power, A Secret History, New York Times citation

, passage=Akram is a working alim , lecturing in mosques and universities and dispensing fatwas on issues like inheritance and divorce.}}