| The Zaydis favored Zayd ibn Ali, grandson of Husayn, as fifth imam due to his activist revolutionary position against the Umayyad dynasty. |
| The mayor, the imam, the sheik and some stubbled men all took seats around the long table. |
| While I was offering a supererogatory prayer, the imam entered the obligatory prayer. |
| Far in the distance floated the sonorous and mournful cry of the imam calling the midday prayers. |
| His father, the imam of a neighborhood mosque that was destroyed in tribal conflict, was killed in prison. |
| It would be mad for people just to run off to the local mosque and expect the imam to greet you with open arms. |
