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Honorific title in the classical era for outstanding scholars of the Islamic sciences
Shaykh al-Islām ( Sheykh-ol-Eslām;, Sheikh-ul-Islām;,) was used in the classical era as an honorific title for outstanding scholars of the Islamic sciences. It first emerged in Khurasan towards the end of the 4th Islamic century. In the central and western lands of Islam, it was an informal title given to jurists whose fatwas were particularly influential, while in the east it came to be conferred... Wikipedia