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mullah
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mollah \Mol"lah\, n. [Ar. maul[=a], commonly moll[=a]in Turkey.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
title given in Muslim lands to one learned in theology and sacred law, 1610s, from Turkish molla, Persian and Urdu mulla, from Arabic mawla "master," from waliya "reigned, governed."
Wiktionary
n. (context Islam English) A religious scholar and teacher of sharia law.
Wikipedia
Mullah (; , , , , ) is derived from the Quranic term Mawla. However, used ambiguously in the Quran, some publishers have described its usage as a religious title as inappropriate. The term is sometimes applied to a Muslim man or woman, educated in Islamic theology and sacred law. The title is derived from the Arabic word mawlā, meaning "vicar," "master" and "guardian." In large parts of the Muslim world, particularly Iran, Kurdistan, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Eastern Arabia, Turkey and the Balkans, Central Asia, the Horn of Africa and South Asia, it is the name commonly given to local Islamic clerics or mosque leaders.
The title has also been used in some Sephardic Jewish communities to refer to the community's leadership, especially religious leadership.
The term mullah is primarily understood in the Muslim world as a term of respect for an educated religious man.
Usage examples of "mullah".
Not knowing exactly what excuse to make, but hoping for something to turn up, the mullah took a lantern and followed him out, taking the lead as they passed through the gap in the fence and drew abreast of the mosque portico.
When the thuggish mullahs jailed blogger Sina Motallebi, fury roiled the blogosphere.
In the North-west Provinces about Allahabad, the Chumars, Passees, Kooras, Khewuts or Mullahs, have rather a high estimate of the flesh, which they assert resembles turtle.
This obscure and undisturbed retreat was the residence of a priest of great age and of peculiar holiness, known to fame as the Hadda Mullah.
Whether by instigation or from personal motives, the Hadda Mullah has long been a bitter foe to the British power.
Afghan notabilities, and the fame of the Hadda Mullah was known throughout the land.
The Hadda Mullah with 1000 tribesmen had gathered to oppose the further advance.
The Suffi and Hadda Mullahs exerted the whole of their influence upon their credulous followers.
It was decided that General Elles should be reinforced by the 3rd Brigade of the Malakand Field Force, and should clear the Bedmanai Pass and complete the discomfiture of the Hadda Mullah.
The Launde students had been co-operative, a welcome change from the hideously antagonistic mullahs in Turkey.
Nangarhar where Izmat Khan had been born was the mullah Maulvi Younis Khalis.
Fifteen years later, still under the leadership of Mullah Barzani, the Kurds had organized an armd resistance against Iraqi rule.
She sat with her unprotected back to a vastness of desert, where venomous snakes slithered in the heat of the night, where tarantulas as hairy as the maniacal mullahs of the Taliban scurried in search of prey, and where the creepiest species native to this cruel realm of rock and sand and scraggly scrub were even more fearsome than serpents or spiders.
Beyond the woman from Commerce beside him was a lesser Medinan mullah.
The mullahs of Gedda sent word to Omdurman, and within days twenty aggagiers headed by al-Noor came to escort them back to the Holy City.