mollah
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Our servants and charvadars are all Moslems, and each of them took an oath on the Koran, administered by a mollah, that he was innocent of the theft.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
The mollah is a grave, quiet, and most respectable-looking man, more like a thriving merchant than a nomad chief, though he does carry arms.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
At this moment passed by my cell the old mollah, who, during my visit to the m�shtehed, had warned me against putting too much confidence in the dervish.
From The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan by Morier, James
Equally unsparing is his exposure of the reputed pillars of the Church, mollahs and m�shteheds, as illustrated by his excellent stories of the Mollah Bashi of Tehran, and of the mollah Nadan.
From The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan by Morier, James
The mollah dug in the ground, and water miraculously appeared.
From All About Coffee by Ukers, William H. (William Harrison)
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