noun, masculine/muf.ti/plural: muftis
mufti (Muslim scholar)
“Le Mufti commande aux Turcs de baſtonner le Bourgeois, […]” — The mufti orders the Turks to batter the bourgeois, […]
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish مفتی (müfti), from Arabic مُفْتٍ (muftin), the active participle of أَفْتَى (ʔaftā, “to deliver a formal opinion”).