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    Then some imams at Friday prayers in the largest mosque in Rawalpindi condemned the governor.  (source)
    imams = Islamic religious leaders
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    We learned about the Prophet Muhammad and the imams.  (source)
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    The imam and the priest nodded.  (source)
    imam = a Muslim leader
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    When the bus passes the shrine to Imam Reza, the eighth Shi'a imam, Laila cranes her neck to get a better view of its glistening tiles, the minarets, the magnificent golden dome, all of it immaculately and lovingly preserved.  (source)
    Imam = Islamic religious leader
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    King Muhammad also reformed family law, giving women more rights in divorce and marriage, and he supported the pathbreaking appointment of fifty women imams, or preachers.  (source)
    imams = Islamic religious leaders
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    The imam was oblivious to what was going on until it was too late.  (source)
    imam = Islamic religious leader
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    I assure you that the book contains the names of your most respected imams.  (source)
    imams = Islamic religious leaders
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    Another was an imam in Riyadh.  (source)
    imam = Islamic religious leader
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    The various doubts of the imams were comforting, and drew her closer.  (source)
    imams = Islamic religious leaders
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    "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)
    imam = Islamic religious leader
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    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
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    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)
    Imam = Islamic religious leader
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    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
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    He sent my father to the government high school to learn English and receive a modern education rather than to a madrasa, even though as an imam people criticized him for this.  (source)
    imam = untracked name in this novel
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    He was also an imam at the local mosque.  (source)
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    They took Imam Deri, the headquarters of Fazlullah.  (source)
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    One said he had been ordered by Mullah Fazlullah to help build his center in Imam Deri.  (source)
    Imam = untracked name in this novel
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    One of the fruit pickers reported her to the local imam, who informed the police.  (source)
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    Though Afghans are renowned fighters, Colonel Imam, the officer heading the program, complained that trying to organize them was "like weighing frogs."  (source)
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    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)
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    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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    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)
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    The army had destroyed his headquarters in Imam Deri and then claimed to have him surrounded in the mountains of Peochar.  (source)
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    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)
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    Meanwhile the imam at the late governor's mosque refused to perform his funeral prayers and the president did not attend his funeral.  (source)
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