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ayatollah
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a high-ranking Shiite religious leader who is regarded as an authority on religious law and its interpretation and who has political power as well
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
honorific title for an Iranian Shiite religious leader, 1950, from Persian, from Arabic ayatu-llah , literally "miraculous sign of God."
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A religious leader in Twelver Shi'ism.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Ayatollah ( or ; ayatollah from , āyatu allah "Sign of Allah") is a high-ranking title given to Usuli Twelver Shī‘ah clerics . Those who carry the title are experts in Islamic studies such as jurisprudence , quran reading , and philosophy and usually teach ...
Usage examples of ayatollah.
Like the Admiral, the Ayatollah had had a close and trusted friend liberated from the Nimrod Jail.
His Holiness Grand Ayatollah in Tehran believes the day will come in the next one hundred years when the entire American continent, north, central, and south, will become one entity, isolationist, and completely self-sufficient in resources.
Commander Ben Badr looked up and caught the eye of the Ayatollah, who nodded his assent for the frigate CO to speak.
The clerics betrayed nothing, but the Ayatollah was leaning forward on his elbows, his head resting on his upraised fingers.
I can promise the Grand Ayatollah will not be in favor of the latter option.
The Grand Ayatollah will not agree to sit back and abandon the conflict.
It was also the first time in the history of their relationship that the ayatollah had acknowledged that he was not the final decision maker on Operation Dawa.
MacArthur, the Jevlenese that Shiohin had failed to convince with the laser demonstration, and who was already rising fast in the purple-spiral movement, was a comparative new boy on the scene, having awakened as an ayatollah only in the time since JEVEX was suspended.
Interestingly, MacArthur, a recently emerged ayatollah, had raved on at one point about the gods putting the stars out.
The street they were following crossed a small square in which a wildly gesticulating ayatollah clad in a yellow tunic and green smock was haranguing a crowd pressed from wall to wall.
More ominously, the activist Shia Islam preached by the leader of the revolution in Iran, Ayatollah Sayyid Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini, threatened to upset the delicate Sunni-Shia balance in Iraq, and a hostile Iran would threaten Iraqi security in the Gulf.
In the summer of 1980, Saddam Husayn ordered the executions of presumed Ad Dawah leader Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad Baqr as Sadr and his sister.
Headquartered in Tehran, SAIRI was under the chairmanship of Muhammad Baqir al Hakim, a prominent clergyman whose father had been the leading ayatollah of Iraq in the 1960s.
Arab-versus-Persian religious and ethnic disputes, to a personal animosity between Saddam Husayn and Ayatollah Khomeini.
Israeli invasion of Lebanon but had no impact on the ayatollah, who continued to proclaim that the road to Jerusalem ran through Baghdad.