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Quran Made Easy: Complete English Translation with Inline Commentary
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The Holy Bible: HCSB Digital Text Edition: Holman Christian Standard Bible Optimized for Digital Readers
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because it did not empower a priesthood as the intermediary between the faithful and their god, Islam did not bind the individual so tightly into an ordered religious community. Its clerical elite, the ulama, were teachers, judges and scholars, not priests. Sufis and pirs, or holy men, exerted spiritual leadership, not religious authority.