But it also has a scholarly authority and imaginative sparkle all too rare in upscale pulp - or, for that matter, any kind of writing.

The following table shows the considered imams in the context of scholarly authority by Sunni Muslims:

Mr. Hughes, the Rutgers dean, can answer with scholarly authority.

In this way, auctoritas might function as a kind of "passive counsel", much as, for example, a scholarly authority.

Mr. Rosen's version worked nicely enough, but it was a move only a pianist with his scholarly authority could get away with.

Those who are considered imams in the context of scholarly authority by Sunni Muslims, are listed below:

Lewis's policy advice has particular weight thanks to this scholarly authority.

Even the scholarly authorities, Mr. Bilir said, sometimes disagree by as much as two centuries about the age of really old pieces.

Because the Islamic Republic stakes its legitimacy on the scholarly authority of its jurist-ruler, the regime takes such debates quite seriously.

He was acknowledged to be a scholarly authority on Adam Smith and on the Physiocrats.