Sultan to as a sultanate ( "). The term is distinct from king ( "), despite both referring to a sovereign ruler. The use of "sultan" is restricted to Muslim countries, where the title carries religious significance, contrasting the more secular "king", which is used in both Muslim and non-Muslim countries. A feminine form of "sultan", used by Westerners, is Sultana or Sultanah and this title has been used legally for some (not all) Muslim women monarchs and sultan's mothers and chief consorts. However, Turkish and Ottoman Turkish also uses "sultan" for imperial lady, as Turkish grammar—which is influenced by Persian
Muslim Jamaat on 10 October 2015. A well-known scholar and a social activist, Sheikh Aboobacker Ahmed has been elected as the President of the "Kerala Muslim Jamaat" and is a prominent Indian Muslim leader. He also has a history of making controversial remarks about equal status of women and their role in society. He also often says that education is the most powerful weapon in the fight against terrorism and was the first religious Muslim leader in India to issue a "fatwa" (religious decree) against the terror group "Daesh". The origin of the term "Jamaath" is from the Arabic language: جماعتِ (meaning