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Mullah - Definition and Overview |
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Mollahs in the court of a Safavide monarch, Iran. The involvement of Mollahs in politics is a relatively recent phenomenon that peaked in Iran in 1979 with Ayatollah Khomeini taking control of all political affairs as "supreme leader".
Mullahs are Islamic clergy who have studied the Qur'an and the Hadith and are considered experts on related religious matters in this religion.
Mullahs are considered to be able to give direction and make judgments based on their religious studies.
"Mullah" derives from Urdu mulla through Persian, originally from Arabic mawla, meaning "master, friend". The 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica pointed out that Arabic maula was a term which originally expressed the legal bond connecting a former owner with his manumitted slave, both patron and client being called maula.
Under Islam a mullah is a learned man, a teacher, a doctor of the law of Sharia. In India the term is applied to the man who reads the Qur'an, and also to a Muslim schoolmaster. The Encyclopedia Britannica noted in 1911 that mullahs are considered powerful social leaders:
- "In countries like Afghanistan the mullahs exert an influence over the populace which sometimes rivals that of the amir himself, and they have been responsible for many disturbances in Kabul."
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Example Usage of Mullah |
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tauseefkhan: RT @ThePersecution: Pampering the Mullah [Opinion] - The News International, Pakistan
http://bit.ly/2nrFyJ OR Blog http://bit.ly/3Pi9dl |
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slicemullah: ... $lice Mullah, Google Me! |
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xerxes_av: @akamoney Mullah pigs only use your name 2 justify their repression.IRI simply doesnt want u 2 have bases its borders. #iranelection |
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