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.