| Behind the mosque's central arch was a carved marble balcony, where in better days a maulvi had stood to address the assembled villagers. |
| The girl's family had not come, and the two men did not celebrate the marriage, but brought the maulvi quietly to perform the nikah. |
| He would have been beheaded along with the other prisoners, had it not been for the intercession of Tipu's mother and her maulvi. |
| The principal religious officer is the maulvi, who corresponds to the Hindu Guru or preceptor. |
| Since 2007, maulvi Nazir and the Pakistani military had kept to an unwritten truce. |
| She explained that it took eight years to convince the local maulvi, or religious preacher, to permit a single girl to attend school in her conservative village. |
