Possible Clues:

• Religious leader has a cheek entering church
• Being somewhat sceptical I phoned religious leader
• Briefly, state hip replacement's needed for the sultan
• Muslim leader has a cheek, going into church
• Old spiritual leader caught boxer by pub
• Stolen from plain clothes for religious leader
• Religious leader -- his name perhaps has power in church
• Revered Muslim
• Old Muslim ruler
• Ruler chosen through the Islamic process of shura