Ulema, a body in Turkey, or any Mohammedan country, of the learned in the Mohammedan religion and law, such as the Imams, or religious teachers, the Muftis, or expounders of the law and the Cadis, or judges; its decrees are called “fetvas.”
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Uleaborg * Ullmann, Karl