faqih

[fah-kee]

noun

Islam.

plural

faqihs, fuqahaʾ 

1. an Islamic religious lawyer.

Word History and Origins

Origin of faqih¹

From the Arabic word faqīh

Example Sentences

"They all have chronic illnesses," said Mohammad Faqih, an official from the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, adding that one man had a broken leg.

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Operator Rana Faqih stayed on the line with Hind for hours, as the Red Crescent appealed to the Israeli army to allow their ambulance to access the location.

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Holder of a PhD in political science, Jalili is a pious believer in Iran's ‘velayat-e faqih’, or rule by supreme jurisprudence, a system of Islamic government that provides the basis for Khamenei's position.

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“We could reduce the high number of deaths among doctors and medical workers,” said its head, Daeng M. Faqih.

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Iranians chanted “death to velayate faqih” — the guardianship of religious jurists, which places Khamenei as a spiritual guide hovering above the political structure and grants him an aura of infallibility.

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