mufti

noun

1. (countable)A Muslim scholar and interpreter of sharia law, who can deliver a fatwa.

   “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.”

2. (Australia, British, New-Zealand, uncountable)A civilian dress when worn by a member of the military or the police, or casual dress when worn by a pupil of a school who normally would wear uniform.

   “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.”

   “The innate reluctance of the Englishman to make himself conspicuous has stood him here in good stead. Except on special occasions, the British officers are almost always in mufti.”

   “The neutrality, however, causes some peculiar situations, such as that arising from the prohibition of uniforms other than those of the Eireann Defence Forces and the Diplomatic Corps. This would be simple if no one from Eire were a sailor, soldier, or airman in the British Forces, but thousands of them are, and as such they may not wear mufti unless on leave from the B.E.F.”

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

name

1. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of Minimum Use of Force and Tactical Intervention.