It was first created in Lebanon in 1975 by Imam Mussa Sadr, an Iranian mullah who had become leader of the Shi'ite community there. |
In the summer of 2006, an obscure mullah in Calcutta seemed desperate for some media attention. |
At the school, the children have to endure a bizarre lecture from an old mullah about how to wash their genitals after a nocturnal emission. |
This reflects, in part, the prevailingly local character of the interdiction, pronounced by a mullah or self-imposed by a body of listeners. |
Nonetheless, every decade or two, the British faced a major tribal revolt, typically led by a charismatic mullah. |
The family gathers near sunset in the presence of a mullah, who reads from the Qu'ran and recites prayers for the dead over the food. |