Mollah

Three men played tambourines or tom-toms of skin called _teheranes_, and to this music they chanted passages out of the Koran, led by the 'mollah'; this formed ❋ Mabel Bent (N/A)

A former foreign minister of Iran, Velayati is the one non-mollah in Khamenei's innermost cadre. ❋ Jamsheed K. Choksy (2011)

It was playing "Iftada-e-ishq me hum sari raat jaghe, allah jaane kya hoga aage, oh mollah jaane kya hoga aage .." from the old Hindi movie Haryali Aur Rasta. ❋ Anjali (2009)

MN conflated homosexuality and pedophilia, and attacked clerical teachers and leaders for molesting young boys, played upon feelings of contempt for passive homosexuals, suggested that elite men who kept amrad concubines had a vested interested in maintaining the male homosocial public spaces where semi-covert pederasty was tolerated, and mocked the rites of exchanging brotherhood vows before a mollah and compared it to a wedding ceremony. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Many prebends and bishoprics were preserved for them; and even at this day the Turkish sultan makes canons and bishops, without the pope having ever made an imam or a mollah. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And you who bear authority over these benighted people, whether under the name of pasha, effendi, or mollah, let me advise you, although an unpromising subject for advice, not to act the stupid as well as barbarous part of riveting your nations in chains. ❋ Unknown (2007)

He has been accustomed to pronounce, with his mollah, certain words which he takes for ideas. ❋ Unknown (2007)

But little by little I saw so much of him, although he had not yet discovered me, that I could not be mistaken; it was the mollah himself. ❋ James Morier (N/A)

Hajji and the mollah make plans suited to their critical situation, showing that no confidence can exist between rogues. ❋ James Morier (N/A)

I should immediately have taken him for the mollah Nadân but for his singing; for it never struck me as possible that one of his grave character and manners could ever lower himself by so ignoble an act. ❋ James Morier (N/A)

The mollah was in too pitiable a condition for me to continue upbraiding him any longer. ❋ James Morier (N/A)

But the mollah calls to prayers from the minaret of a humble mosque; and in a dark corner illumined by aslant rays from a small high window in a wall, teaches to some half a dozen urchins the strange Arabic letters and the chants of the Koran. ❋ John Milton Mackie (N/A)

This he sealed, and, having duly fashioned it in its proper shape with his scissors, rolled it up and delivered it to me; saying, ‘Proceed to Tehran immediately; no doubt you will find the place vacant, and the mollah willing to appoint you to fill it. ❋ James Morier (N/A)

The mollah bashi (between you and me, be it said) is in every degree an ass, -- one who knows as much of religion and its duties, as of Frangistân and its kings. ❋ James Morier (N/A)

Everybody knew how ill-disposed against him was my master, the mollah Nadân, and I shall be called the vile instrument of his enmity. ❋ James Morier (N/A)

Showing how the ambition of the mollah Nadân involves both him and his disciples in ruin. ❋ James Morier (N/A)

‘Leave it to me, ’ thought I, ‘to become a whole mollah, when once I have been made half a one. ❋ James Morier (N/A)

The mollah Nadân, so I had heard, had long ago been blown from the mouth of a mortar, and the widow, whom I left in the hands of the Cûrds, had never returned to ❋ James Morier (N/A)

Yo where's [Mollah] at? He's busy playing video games and drinking [Ice cold] Monster. You just got [Mollah'd] ❋ SolEnlightened (2021)