Persian became the preferred language of the Muslim elite of north India.
For the Muslim elite various Mughal-type titles were introduced, including Nawab.
He would ask for donations from the immigrant community he refers to, somewhat bitterly, as the "Muslim elite."
In so doing, he boarded the groupthink express steered by Muslim elites.
The Muslim elite emigrated at that time.
Its politics were dominated by Muslim elite.
These description of the assassins and other of the Muslim elites were common after the crusaders went home bringing their stories of the war.
By all accounts he was a very stern, uncompromising person not given to levity and humor so characteristic of the Muslim elite of the age.
The court split into two factions, supporting the father and the son, and the more militant Muslim elite supported the father.
The idea about Yugoslavism wasn't present, it become problem of Bosnian Muslim political elite only in 1918.