21.   Military officers and other secularists believe that religious academies have become too influential in Turkey, producing Islamic militants rather than simple clergy members and religious scholars.

22.   Muslim religious scholars unanimously condemn the attack.

23.   One, purported to have been issued last week, offered condolences at the death of a Pakistani religious scholar.

24.   Perhaps the most successful strategy for attracting men as well as women, religious scholars say, has been the creation of small groups within congregations.

25.   Religious scholars and theologians have reacted in various ways to the discoveries of Biblical archaeologists.

26.   Religious scholars say he is an excellent yoga practitioner, and his sect is in fact an outgrowth of a successful yoga school he operated.

27.   Schenker described Abu Zant as more of a populist religious figure than an accomplished Islamic religious scholar.

28.   Senior religious scholars have posed a series of open challenges, amid widespread accusations of corruption and, worse, decadence.

29.   Six senior religious scholars left their jobs and challenged others in the religious establishment to follow suit.

30.   Some conservative religious scholars declared that, since bicycle seats resemble saddles, and they believe that Muslim women should not ride horseback, then bicycling should be prohibited.