Crossword clues for ayatollah
ayatollah
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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
n. A religious leader in Twelver Shi'ism.
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
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 in Islamic seminaries. The next lower clerical rank is Hujjat al-Islam.
Lamont Dorrell, known as Ayatollah, is a hip-hop record producer from Queens, New York who has produced for predominantly New York-based rappers including Mos Def, R.A. The Rugged Man, Tragedy Khadafi, Wordsworth, Vast Aire, Afu-Ra, Guru, M.O.P., Inspectah Deck, Cormega, Ghostface Killah as well as many others. R.A. the Rugged Man had said in an interview that he was the first person to ever buy a beat from Ayatollah. Broadly speaking Ayatollah's production encompasses a soulful, authentic east coast hip-hop sound which has brought him steady success and acclaim since the late 1990s.
Ayatollah may refer to:
- Ayatollah, title given to Shi'a mujtahids
More specifically the most notable Ayatollahs, holding the position of Supreme Leader of Iran are:
- Ruhollah Khomeini
- Ali Khameni
The most senior ayatollahs are described as Grand Ayatollah or Marja'. Details of specific ayatollahs may be found under
- List of Maraji
- List of deceased Maraji
- List of Ayatollahs
Ayatollah may also refer to:
- Ayatollah (producer), Lamont Dorrell, better known as Ayatollah, hip hop producer
- Chris Jericho, professional wrestler nicknamed Ayatollah of Rock and Rollah
- The Ayatollah (football celebration), a football celebration used by Cardiff City
- Ayatollah Dollar, MiniCD EP by Muslimgauze
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.