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What is a mullah?

What is a mullah? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (Islam) A religious scholar and teacher of sharia law.
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In the summer of 2006, an obscure mullah in Calcutta seemed desperate for some media attention.
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.
Nonetheless, every decade or two, the British faced a major tribal revolt, typically led by a charismatic mullah.
After weeping for Underhill, a man he can see only as an infidel, the mullah becomes his fast friend and, eventually, helps him escape.
No women can become a priest in the Orthodox church or a mullah among Muslims.
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.

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