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  • I suspect he'll be on the other side of the world, probably in Iran, teaching marketing to the mullahs.†   (source)
  • The grand mullah of Mecca had given a speech denouncing the nanovaccines and stating that they were made from the entrails of pigs.†   (source)
  • We sent you to school, we had the mullahs teach you.†   (source)
  • "But Mullah Fatiullah Khan seems nice," I managed between bursts of tittering.   (source)
    mullah = a Muslim religious teacher or leader
  • Then the mullah asked Rasheed if he indeed wished to enter into a marriage contract with Mariam.   (source)
  • One said he had been ordered by Mullah Fazlullah to help build his center in Imam Deri.   (source)
  • The next morning, Mullah Faizullah came to visit her.   (source)
  • There wasn't an Afghan in the world who didn't know at least a few jokes about the bumbling mullah.   (source)
  • Afterward people told him his name was heard on Mullah FM in a threat from Shah Douran.   (source)
  • The mullah gave a few blessings, said a few words about the importance of marriage.   (source)
  • It became known as Mullah FM, and Fazlullah as the Radio Mullah.   (source)
  • We exchanged Mullah Nasruddin jokes until we ran out of them and we fell silent again.   (source)
  • One time, I was reading him a Mullah Nasruddin story and he stopped me.   (source)
  • He even dared to enter the Radio Mullah's own village one day to speak at a school.   (source)
  • "All that remains now is the signing of the contract," the mullah said.   (source)
  • The mullah chose an ayat and recited it, casting the other fellow nasty glances.   (source)
  • "You should not speak like this to her, my child," Mullah Faizullah said.   (source)
  • Then the Radio Mullah turned his attention to schools.   (source)
  • Mariam had told Mullah Faizullah all about this film.   (source)
  • The mullah grabs it under its jaw and places the blade on its neck.   (source)
  • In our province these elections brought what we called a "mullah government" to power.   (source)
  • You know I don't need lessons anymore, Mullah sahib.   (source)
  • After Mullah FM had been on air for about a year, Fazlullah became more aggressive.   (source)
  • The mullah questioned the witnesses and read from the Koran.   (source)
  • A mullah chanted surrahs from the Koran into a microphone.   (source)
  • "Actually," the mullah said, "she herself has to answer."   (source)
  • This is the propaganda of the followers of Mullah Fazlullah.   (source)
  • You didn't even have the decency to give me the time to say good-bye to Mullah Faizullah.   (source)
  • Now, no matter what the mullah teaches, there is only one sin, only one.   (source)
  • "We are dependent on these mullahs to learn the Quran," he said.   (source)
    mullahs = Muslim religious teachers or leaders
  • "You are now husband and wife," the mullah said.   (source)
    mullah = a Muslim religious teacher or leader
  • Mullahs from the TNSM preached that the earthquake was a warning from God.   (source)
    mullahs = Muslim religious teachers or leaders
  • I envied the mullah now, envied his faith and certainty.   (source)
    mullah = a Muslim religious teacher or leader
  • Then someone told a Mullah Nasruddin joke and we were all laughing.   (source)
  • The mullah motioned toward the veil, and Nargis arranged it on Mariam's head before taking a seat.   (source)
  • Caught between Baba and the mullahs at school, I still hadn't made up my mind about God.   (source)
    mullahs = Muslim religious teachers
  • "I'll live with Mullah Faizullah," she said.   (source)
    mullah = a Muslim religious teacher or leader
  • She wished Mullah Faizullah were here so she could put her head on his lap and let him comfort her.   (source)
  • On the TV screen, the two mullahs were consulting each other.   (source)
    mullahs = Muslim religious teachers or leaders
  • It was easy to tell Mullah Faizullah things that Mariam didn't dare tell Nana.   (source)
    mullah = a Muslim religious teacher or leader
  • She wished Mullah Faizullah could see her now.   (source)
  • Mullah Faizullah put his hand on her knee.   (source)
  • Pangs of longing bore into her, for Nana, for Mullah Faizullah, for her old life.   (source)
  • School was really the back room of the village mosque where, in addition to teaching Koran recitation, Mullah Shekib had taught every child in the village to read and write, to memorize poetry.   (source)
  • This was the city where Mullah Omar lived, and a navy bomber managed to drop one dead in the middle of his backyard.   (source)
  • Somehow these hickory-tough tribesmen not only survived the onslaught of American bombing and escaped from the advancing Northern Alliance, but they also evaded one of the biggest manhunts in the history of warfare as an increasingly frustrated United States moved heaven and earth to capture bin Laden, Mullah Omar, and the rest.   (source)
  • People jokingly referred to the MMA as the Mullah Military Alliance and said they got elected because they had Musharraf's support.   (source)
  • Our provincial government was still made up of mullah parties who wouldn't criticize anyone who claimed to be fighting for Islam.   (source)
  • The year before I was born a group called the Taliban led by a mullah had taken over the country and was burning girls' schools.   (source)
  • We all stand in the backyard, Hassan, Ali, Baba, and I. The mullah recites the prayer, rubs his beard.   (source)
  • Mullah FM made jokes about the army.   (source)
  • Did you hear about the time Mullah had placed a heavy bag on his shoulders and was riding his donkey?   (source)
  • My friends at school said their mothers listened to the Radio Mullah although our headmistress Madam Maryam told us not to.   (source)
  • The mullah and another man got into an argument over which was the correct ayat of the Koran to recite at the gravesite.   (source)
  • I also wrote about people going to watch the floggings announced on Mullah FM, and the fact that the army and the police were nowhere to be seen.   (source)
  • So I read him unchallenging things, like the misadventures of the bumbling Mullah Nasruddin and his donkey.   (source)
  • Just in front of the school on Khushal Street, where I was born, was the house of a tall handsome mullah and his family.   (source)
  • It was when Mullah Faizullah's slight, stooping figure appeared in the kolba's doorway that Mariam cried for the first time that day.   (source)
  • Agha, did you hear what Mullah Nasruddin did when his daughter came home and complained that her husband had beaten her?   (source)
  • "I am representing the Ulema and Tablighian and Taliban," Mullah Ghulamullah said, referring to not just one but two organizations of Muslim scholars to give himself gravitas.   (source)
  • It was Mullah Faizullah who had held her hand, guided the pencil in it along the rise of each alef, the curve of each beh, the three dots of each seh.   (source)
  • His name was Mullah Fatiullah Khan, a short, stubby man with a face full of acne scars and a gruff voice.   (source)
  • It was run by two brothers, Abdul Aziz and Abdul Rashid, and had become a center for spreading propaganda about bin Laden, whom Abdul Rashid had met in Kandahar when visiting Mullah Omar.   (source)
  • We were upstairs in Baba's study, the smoking room, when I told him what Mullah Fatiullah Khan had taught us in class.   (source)
  • But Mariam's favorite, other than Jalil of course, was Mullah Faizullah, the elderly village Koran tutor, its akhund.   (source)
  • On Mullah FM, Fazlullah said she deserved to die for her immoral character and any other girls found performing in Banr Bazaar would be killed one by one.   (source)
  • Mullah Faizullah admitted to Mariam that, at times, he did not understand the meaning of the Koran's words.   (source)
  • "Just as we say, Nim hakim khatrai jan'—'Half a doctor is a danger to one's life,' so, Nim mullah khatrai mullah who is not fully learned is a danger to faith," ' he said.   (source)
  • Wars were waged, the Internet was invented, and a robot had rolled on the surface of Mars, and in Afghanistan we were still telling Mullah Nasruddin jokes.   (source)
  • Then the morning after, on TV, we would hear of more Taliban killings and wonder what the army was doing with all its booming cannons and why they could not even stop the daily broadcasts on Mullah FM.   (source)
  • "God's words will never betray you, my girl" Mullah Faizullah listened to stories as well as he told them.   (source)
  • Bowing my head to the ground, I recited half-forgotten verses from the Koran—verses the mullah had made us commit to memory in Kabul—and asked for kindness from a God I wasn't sure existed.   (source)
  • "I want Mullah Faizullah," Mariam said.   (source)
  • The journey took at least five hours by road over the Malakand Pass, a vast bowl of mountains where long ago our ancestors led by a preacher called Mullah Saidullah (known by the British as the Mad Fakir) battled British forces among the craggy peaks.   (source)
  • The mullah finishes the prayer.   (source)
  • Two men Mariam had never seen before-witnesses, she presumed-and a mullah she did not recognize were already seated at the table.   (source)
  • The ISI chief asked the Americans to hold off their attack on Afghanistan until he had gone to Kandahar to ask the Taliban leader Mullah Omar to hand over bin Laden; instead he offered the Taliban help.   (source)
  • Now the last of the mourners had paid their respects and the mosque was empty, save for the mullah unplugging the microphone and wrapping his Koran in green cloth.   (source)
  • A few blocks away, from the Haji Yaghoub Mosque, the mullah bellowed azan, calling for the faithful to unroll their rugs and bow their heads west in prayer.   (source)
  • The odd thing was no one had even noticed the publication of the book to start with—it wasn't actually on sale in Pakistan—but then a series of articles appeared in Urdu newspapers by a mullah close to our intelligence service, berating the book as offensive to the Prophet, PBUH, and saying it was the duty of good Muslims to protest.   (source)
  • All she could do was cry and cry and let her tears fall on the spotted, paper-thin skin of Mullah Faizullah's hands.   (source)
  • The village arbab and his gifts, Bibi jo and her aching hip and endless gossiping, and, of course, Mullah Faizullah.   (source)
  • You mean Mullah Fatiullah Khan?   (source)
  • Radio Mullah   (source)
  • They even had the mascara—I remembered how, on the day of Eid of qorban, the mullah in our backyard used to apply mascara to the eyes of the sheep and feed it a cube of sugar before slicing its throat.   (source)
  • A peace deal had been struck between the Taliban and the provincial government, which was now under the control of the ANP, not the mullahs.   (source)
    mullahs = Muslim religious teachers or leaders
  • The next time Mariam signed her name to a document, twenty-seven years later, a mullah would again be present.   (source)
    mullah = a Muslim religious teacher or leader
  • There was a band of sunlight on the bed between us, and, for just a moment, the ashen gray face looking at me from the other side of it was a dead ringer for Hassan's, not the Hassan I played marbles with until the mullah belted out the evening azan and Ali called us home, not the Hassan I chased down our hill as the sun dipped behind clay rooftops in the west, but the Hassan I saw alive for the last time, dragging his belongings behind Ali in a warm summer downpour, stuffing them in…   (source)
  • Soon mullahs all over Pakistan were denouncing the book, calling for it to be banned, and angry demonstrations were held.   (source)
    mullahs = Muslim religious teachers or leaders
  • It was an old hand-wound clock with black numbers on a mint green face, a present from Mullah Faizullah.   (source)
    mullah = a Muslim religious teacher or leader
  • Before then mullahs had almost been figures of fun—my father said at wedding parties they would just hang around in a corner and leave early— but under Zia they became influential and were called to Islamabad for guidance on sermons.   (source)
    mullahs = Muslim religious teachers or leaders
  • She missed the winter afternoons of reading in the kolba with Mullah Faizullah, the clink of icicles falling on her roof from the trees, the crows cawing outside from snow-burdened branches.   (source)
    mullah = a Muslim religious teacher or leader
  • The three of them would sit for tea and then Jalil would excuse himself "Off to celebrate Eid with his real family," Nana would say as he crossed the stream and waved-Mullah Faizullah would come too.   (source)
  • Perched on a high branch, she would eat Mullah Faizullah's chocolates and drop the foil wrappers until they lay scattered about the trunk of the tree like silver blossoms.   (source)
  • Mullah Faizullah said, looking at her with his soft, watery eyes, his hands behind his stooping back, the shadow of his turban falling on a patch of bristling buttercups.   (source)
  • She missed sitting with Mullah Faizullah outside the kolba, watching the fireworks explode over Herat in the distance, the sudden bursts of color reflected in her tutor's soft, cataract-riddled eyes.   (source)
  • It was Mullah Faizullah who had taught Mariam to read, who had patiently looked over her shoulder as her lips worked the words soundlessly, her index finger lingering beneath each word, pressing until the nail bed went white, as though she could squeeze the meaning out of the symbols.   (source)
  • When he showed up at the kolba, Mariam kissed Mullah Faizullah's hand-which felt like kissing a set of twigs covered with a thin layer of skin-and he kissed the top of her brow before they sat inside for the day's lesson.   (source)
  • She remembered a verse from the Koran that Mullah Faizullah had taught her: And Allah is the East and the West, therefore wherever you turn there is Allah's purpose… She laid down her prayer rug and did namaz.   (source)
  • Mullah Faizullah twirled the beads of his tasbeh rosary as they strolled, and, in his quivering voice, told Mariam stories of all the things he'd seen in his youth, like the two-headed snake he'd found in Iran, on Isfahan's Thirty-three Arch Bridge, or the watermelon he had split once outside the Blue Mosque in Mazar, to find the seeds forming the words Allah on one half, Akbar on the other.   (source)
  • Learn what, Mullah sahib?   (source)
  • The mullah welcomed them.   (source)
  • I think Mullah Giti here has a crush on Tariq.†   (source)
  • That's what a mullah is supposed to say.†   (source)
  • Come and let's go to Mazar, Mullah Mohammad jan, To see the fields of tulips, o beloved companion.†   (source)
  • But when God summons me and says, But it wasn't for you to forgive, Mullah, what shall I say?†   (source)
  • You have read it and you have come to see Mullah Faizullah, as I had asked that you do.†   (source)
  • He began to say more, about going to a mosque, finding a mullah, a pair of witnesses, a quick nikka... But Laila was thinking of Mammy, as obstinate and uncompromising as the Mujahideen, the air around her choked with rancor and despair, and she was thinking of Babi, who had long surrendered, who made such a sad, pathetic opponent to Mammy.†   (source)
  • Mariam remembered the day they'd buried Nana and how little comfort she had found when Mullah Faizullah had quoted the Koran for her.†   (source)
  • Before they led her out, Mariam was given a document, told to sign beneath her statement and the mullah's sentence.†   (source)
  • It was hard to tell; he had a pronounced shaking of his hands and head that reminded Mariam of Mullah Faizullah's tremor.†   (source)
  • When they were caught and sent back, the mullah's son was flogged before he repented and said that Naghma had seduced him with her feminine charms.†   (source)
  • What frightens me, hamshira, is the day God summons me before Him and asks, Why did you not do as I said, Mullah?†   (source)
  • Mariam told her about Bibi jo, Mullah Faizullah, the humiliating trek to Jalil's house, Nana's suicide.†   (source)
  • In the mirror, beneath the green veil that the mullah draped over their heads, Laila's eyes met Tariq's.†   (source)
  • She'd tried to elope to Gardez with a young man she'd fallen in love with, the son of a local mullah.†   (source)
  • She remembered something Mullah Faizullah used to say about hunger when Ramadan started: Even the snakebitten man finds sleep, but not the hungry.†   (source)
  • I said, tell me the truth, friend, and he said to me, three months, Mullah sahib, maybe six at most-all God's will, of course.†   (source)
  • It was Sayeed who summoned a friend and a mullah for the nikka that day, Sayeed who pulled Tariq aside and gave him money.†   (source)
  • Is this Mullah Faizullah's house?†   (source)
  • Mariam wondered if there was fighting like this in Herat too, and, if so, how Mullah Faizullah was coping, if he was still alive, and Bibi jo too, with all her sons, brides, and grandchildren.†   (source)
  • Their leader was a mysterious, illiterate, one-eyed recluse named Mullah Omar, who, Rasheed said with some amusement, called himself Ameer-ul-Mumineen, Leader of the Faithful.†   (source)
  • Mullah Faizullah's words whispered in her head: Blessed is He in Whose hand is the kingdom, and He Who has power over all things, Who created death and life that He may try you.†   (source)
  • As the three Taliban watched, Mariam wrote it out, her name-the meem, the reh, the yah, and the meem —remembering the last time she'd signed her name to a document, twenty-seven years before, at Jalil's table, beneath the watchful gaze of another mullah.†   (source)
  • His favorite song was "Mullah Mohammad Jan." He swung his meaty little feet as she sang into his curly hair and joined in when she got to the chorus, singing what words he could make with his raspy voice:†   (source)
  • The mullah's son was freed.†   (source)
  • Two new flowers had unexpectedly sprouted in her life, and, as Mariam watched the snow coming down, she pictured Mullah Faizullah twirling his tasbeh beads, leaning in and whispering to her in his soft, tremulous voice, But it is God Who has planted them, Mariam jo.†   (source)
  • Mullah Faizullah twirling his rosary beads, walking with her along the stream, their twin shadows gliding on the water and on the grassy banks sprinkled with a blue-lavender wild iris that, in this dream, smelled like cloves.†   (source)
  • They rocked with laughter when she playfully grabbed Mullah Shekib's beard.†   (source)
  • He had Mullah Shekib's son, Baitullah, and a few other men help him.†   (source)
  • A Rumi poem, one from Mullah Shekib's teachings.†   (source)
  • Ours is named Mullah Shekib, and he is full of stories.†   (source)
  • And Mullah said, 'Then the Jew was a Muslim at heart.†   (source)
  • But this cannot be blamed on Hekmatyar, or Mullah Omar, or Bin Laden, or Bush and his War on Terror.†   (source)
  • When you were out working today, Mullah Shekib came by, and I spoke to him a long time.†   (source)
  • They declared jihad on him, the mullahs, the tribal chiefs.†   (source)
  • The lungs of the mullahs inflated with enough gasps to fly a thousand Hindenburgs.†   (source)
  • Haidar, the village mullah, stood scanning the darkness toward Afghanistan.†   (source)
  • The king of Saudi Arabia had, however, while officially backing the statements of the grand mullah.†   (source)
  • The grizzled mullah nodded once, as if satisfied, and left Mortenson alone with the guards.†   (source)
  • Khan was the last to leave, deep in conversation with the village mullah.†   (source)
  • "When we came to the Skardu town, the army told us to make our home here," Mullah Gulzar said.†   (source)
  • "We didn't want to come here," Mullah Gulzar said, stroking his long wispy beard.†   (source)
  • "Thanks to Allah Almighty for that," the mullah said.†   (source)
  • Finally, an Iranian mullah visited me, myself, at my home.†   (source)
  • "Mullah Omar thinks there is still time to talk our way out of war," Zaeef said wearily.†   (source)
  • Mortenson took the old mullah's hand in both of his.†   (source)
  • We need to talk to a mullah more powerful than him.†   (source)
  • Inside stood the eight imposing black-turbaned members of the Council of Mullahs.†   (source)
  • It may be helpful, Inshallah, with some of the other village mullahs.†   (source)
  • All villages have a mullah, of course.†   (source)
  • In one group, he musters the courage to slip in a Mullah Omar joke that he had learned in Farsi back in California.†   (source)
  • Now, one day a traveler was passing through, and, of course, he sat with Mullah Shekib for a meal that evening, as is custom.†   (source)
  • Afterward, Mullah Shekib would dip his finger in a bowl of sweetened water and let the baby suckle it.†   (source)
  • Well, we have a mullah in Shadbagh.†   (source)
  • Mullah Shekib will have told them.†   (source)
  • I had been more or less literate when he had hired me back in 1947, thanks to Mullah Shekib, but it was through Suleiman's tutoring that my reading truly advanced, as did my writing by consequence.†   (source)
  • He had overheard Father one time tell the village elder, Mullah Shekib, If I had been born an animal, Mullah Sahib, I swear I would have come out a mule.†   (source)
  • The traveler heard this story and he thought about it, and then he said, 'But, Mullah Sahib, with all due respect, I met a Jew once and I swear his palms bore the very same lines.†   (source)
  • She can see the windmill from here, and the village mosque where Mullah Shekib had taught her and Masooma to read when they were little, and Mullah Shekib's house too, set at the foot at a mild slope.†   (source)
  • He remembered the day they buried him up on the hill, a tiny mound on frozen ground, beneath a pewter sky, Mullah Shekib saying the prayers, the wind spraying grits of snow and ice into everyone's eyes.†   (source)
  • And there was his father, Mullah Shekib himself, and three white-bearded men sitting in the shade of a wall, listlessly fingering their prayer beads, their ageless eyes fixed on Nila and her bare arms with a look of displeasure.†   (source)
  • The engagement lasted only days and culminated not in a big ceremony with live singers and dancers and merriment all around but with a brief visit by a mullah, a witness, and the scribbling of two signatures across a sheet of paper.†   (source)
  • Most of them had been raised-some even born-in refugee camps along the Pakistani border, and in Pakistani madrasas, where they were schooled in Shari'a by mullahs.†   (source)
  • The Supreme Court under Rabbani was filled now with hard-liner mullahs who did away with the communist-era decrees that empowered women and instead passed rulings based on Shari'a, strict Islamic laws that ordered women to cover, forbade their travel without a male relative, punished adultery with stoning.†   (source)
  • Since October, Green Berets had been on the ground in Afghanistan, as well as some SEAL teams conducting reconnaissance missions in advance of two raids by Special Operations Forces: an airfield seizure in southern Afghanistan and a raid on one of Mullah Omar's compounds.†   (source)
  • "Only tea," Mullah Zaeef said in Urdu.†   (source)
  • Mullah Omar would continue to think he could talk his way out of war until American cruise missiles began obliterating his personal residences.†   (source)
  • He'd built one school, been threatened by an enraged mullah, assembled an American board and a scruffy Pakistani staff.†   (source)
  • I heard they held a shura and decided to hand over Osama, but at the last minute, Mullah Omar overruled them and said he'd protect him with his life.†   (source)
  • This mullah approached Hemasil's village council and asked for a bribe to allow the school to be built.†   (source)
  • In the small mountain villages where we work, a local mullah, even a crooked one, has more power than the Pakistani government.†   (source)
  • Mullah Zaeef was in an impossible situation, Mortenson realized, as their talk turned to the coming war.†   (source)
  • For your mal-la khwong, for your kindness in fulfilling our prayers, I can offer you nothing," Mullah Gulzar said.†   (source)
  • I asked Parvi to see if some bigshot mullah might be able to overrule him and I'll let you know what he finds out.†   (source)
  • It was this conservative mullah's way of showing his support for educating all the children of Korphe, even the girls.†   (source)
  • Mustafa was acquainted with the Taliban ambassador, Mullah Abdul Salaam Zaeef, and introduced Mortenson one evening at the Nadia.†   (source)
  • Mullah Omar, the supreme Taliban leader, like most of the high-ranking diehards who surrounded him, had only a madrassa education.†   (source)
  • When they were all seated cross-legged on a plastic tablecloth that covered the warm sand, Apo prodded the mullah to tell his story.†   (source)
  • With Mustafa, Mortenson sat down at a table with four Taliban, in the seat next to Mullah Zaeef, under a hand-painted banner that read "Ole!†   (source)
  • Mullah Gulzar sat under a blue tarp in a black skullcap and struggled to his feet after Apo led Mortenson in.†   (source)
  • "I told the mullah in charge that Agha Mubarek collects money from my people and never provides any zakat for our children," Mehdi Ali says.†   (source)
  • From this new angle, the glare vanished from his glasses and Mortenson saw the mullah's eyes were moist.†   (source)
  • Mortenson was unsure how the mullah felt about having an infidel in the village, an infidel who proposed to educate Korphe's girls.†   (source)
  • But the site the elders of Shigar Valley chose for the Ned Gillette School was not only near the pass where he was murdered, it was adjacent to Chutran, mullah Agha Mubarek's village.†   (source)
  • I expected something like this from an ignorant village mullah, but to get those kinds of letters from my fellow Americans made me wonder whether I should just give up.†   (source)
  • "Perhaps we should turn in Bin Laden to save Afghanistan," Mullah Zaeef said to Mortenson, as he waved to the sombreroed waiter for the bill he insisted on paying.†   (source)
  • It wasn't until the afternoon of the third day that an older man, whom Mortenson took to be the village mullah, arrived holding a dusty Koran, covered in green velvet.†   (source)
  • Heading to his mosque soon after another Inge or Aiko wandered into his sights, Changazi petitioned his mullah for permission to make a muthaa, or temporary marriage.†   (source)
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