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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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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.

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