Some of their most esteemed figures are regularly having their religious credentials called into question.

His religious credentials were acceptable, since he was consistent in prayers and fasting.

I have some religious credentials as well, in my religion I mean.

Despite his religious credentials as a hojatolislam - one rank below ayatollah - he lacks the popular following of Mr. Rafsanjani.

Iranian authorities had charged Ayatollah Boroujerdi with lacking sufficiently senior religious credentials to speak out on the matter.

But Mr. Hussein is a secularist with no religious credentials, and his attempt to drape himself in the mantle of Islam simply did not work.

All religious credentials are arbitrary, self-proclaimed.

Others have questioned Faraj's religious credentials, pointing out that he trained as an electrician rather than as an Islamic jurist.

He wasn't an imam; in fact, he didn't have any official religious credentials at all.

A part-time minister will now replace Mr. Lopez, who decided to hand in his religious credentials.