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imam
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  • The last time Kaloko and I visited the village, dogs were feasting on the burnt remains of the imam.   (source)
  • The semi-burnt body of the imam, as Kaloko had described it, was there in the village square.   (source)
  • He was also an imam at the local mosque.   (source)
  • My mother knelt before the imam and presented me to him.   (source)
  • Then some imams at Friday prayers in the largest mosque in Rawalpindi condemned the governor.   (source)
    imams = Islamic religious leaders
  • The imam waved to my mother, motioning her to bring me to him.   (source)
    imam = Islamic religious leader
  • The imam was oblivious to what was going on until it was too late.   (source)
  • The imam then proceeded to read several suras from the Quran.   (source)
  • "The imam arrived late," said my grandmother.   (source)
  • She would ask them a question, just as she had asked questions of her pastors, and the imams would try to answer, but often they wouldn't know.   (source)
    imams = Islamic religious leaders
  • Meanwhile the imam at the late governor's mosque refused to perform his funeral prayers and the president did not attend his funeral.   (source)
    imam = Islamic religious leader
  • Many of the imams appointed to preach in army barracks were Tablighis and army officers would often take leave and go on preaching tours for the group.   (source)
    imams = Islamic religious leaders
  • At the cemetery the imam read a few suras and my uncle was lowered into the hole and covered with mud.   (source)
    imam = Islamic religious leader
  • He said that upon realizing that the rebels were in the village, everyone quickly and silently left the mosque, one at a time, leaving the imam by himself as he stood there leading the prayer.   (source)
  • Another was an imam in Riyadh.   (source)
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  • "Says the slave-driver of the caste system," huffed the imam.†   (source)
  • Said to be about half the size of Manhattan in area, Sadr City was located northeast of Baghdad's Green Zone, on the far side of Army Canal and Imam Ali Street.†   (source)
  • "Only God knows this," the imam would tell her.†   (source)
  • It was a book of didactic pronouncements from Imam Ali, the founder of the Shiite sect.†   (source)
  • "A lot of our community members felt harassed, discriminated against," said Salahadin Wazir, the imam of the Clarkston mosque, whose congregation was often ticketed for parking improperly around the mosque at Friday prayers.†   (source)
  • The Imam Bara Mosque, like much of Shia Pakistan, showed little of its face to the outside world.†   (source)
  • Milo was not only the Vice-Shah of Oran, as it turned out, but also the Caliph of Baghdad, the Imam of Damascus, and the Sheik of Araby.†   (source)
  • "Piscine, can this be true?" asked the imam earnestly.†   (source)
  • My parents, the imam and the priest looked astounded.†   (source)
  • "I know him too, and I tell you he's a Muslim," asserted the imam.†   (source)
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  • The eyes of the priest and the imam properly popped out of their heads.†   (source)
  • "Your son was seen in church crossing himself," said the imam.†   (source)
  • We sat cross-legged listening to the imam until the time came to pray.†   (source)
  • My parents, the pandit and the imam looked surprised.†   (source)
  • "They strayed long ago from God's path," said the imam.†   (source)
  • "God—or idols," intoned the imam gravely.†   (source)
  • "And they eat pigs and are cannibals," added the imam for good measure.†   (source)
  • It was that of Imam Reza, the Shiite founder.†   (source)
  • You will be in Iran until Imam Mehdi returns.†   (source)
  • D. Imam of the Mosque of Tucson, Arizona. it was provided for my edification.†   (source)
  • Before a year has passed, before Imam Mehdi's next birthday, your wish will come true.†   (source)
  • If the Prophet—p. b. u. h. —were alive, he would have choice words for you," replied the imam, with narrowed eyes.†   (source)
  • The imam nodded strong approval.†   (source)
  • So said the imam.†   (source)
  • The sixteenth day of the Persian month Ordibehesht, which this year happened to fall on May 6, was the birthday of Imam Mehdi, the twelfth imam.†   (source)
  • I asked Imam Mehdi to grant me a wish.†   (source)
  • Her bargain dictated that in return for the healing of her daughter from a near-fatal illness, she would stage a yearly celebration of Imam Mehdi's birthday.†   (source)
  • How could I-a Christian, an American, a woman dare to offer my explanation of the Koran over the views of Imam Reza, the Ayatollah Khomeini, Baba Hajji, and, indeed, my own husband?†   (source)
  • First, I truly believed Amahl was the answer to all my prayers, both Christian and Islamic, to my nasr, to my request to Imam Mehdi, to my pilgrimage to Meshed.†   (source)
  • On such a holy day, a good Shiite is supposed to visit the imam's tomb, but since he was buried in the enemy country of Iraq, we had to settle for his sister's tomb in Rey, the former capital city of Iran, about an hour's drive south.†   (source)
  • It was explained to me that Mohammed himself had appointed Imam Ali to be his successor, but that after the prophet's death the Suni sect had muscled its way into power, gaining control of most of the Islamic world.†   (source)
  • Here Esther busied herself, working and scolding with equal industry, until the repast was prepared; when she summoned her husband to his meal in a voice as sonorous as that with which the Imam reminds the Faithful of a more important duty.†   (source)
  • Some of these pearls were bigger than a pigeon egg; they more than equaled the one that the explorer Tavernier sold the Shah of Persia for ₣3,000,000, and they surpassed that other pearl owned by the Imam of Muscat, which I had believed to be unrivaled in the entire world.†   (source)
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  • They took Imam Deri, the headquarters of Fazlullah.   (source)
    imam = proper name
  • One said he had been ordered by Mullah Fazlullah to help build his center in Imam Deri.   (source)
  • He began building a vast red-brick headquarters in Imam Deri complete with a madrasa, a mosque and walls and levees to protect it from the Swat River.   (source)
  • The army had destroyed his headquarters in Imam Deri and then claimed to have him surrounded in the mountains of Peochar.   (source)
  • The ISI's Colonel Imam boasted he had trained 90,000 Taliban fighters and even became Pakistan's consul general in Herat during the Taliban regime.   (source)
  • He had been greeting friends and constituents for Eid at his hujra, just a mile from Imam Deri where Fazlullah's headquarters had been, when the bomb went off.   (source)
  • Though Afghans are renowned fighters, Colonel Imam, the officer heading the program, complained that trying to organize them was "like weighing frogs."   (source)
  • It was shortly before the earthquake that Fazlullah had appeared in Imam Deri, a small village just a few miles outside Mingora on the other side of the Swat River, and set up his illegal radio station.   (source)
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