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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.†
Chpt 10

mullah = a Muslim religious teacher or leader
Mortenson was unsure how the mullah felt about having an infidel in the village, an infidel who proposed to educate Korphe's girls.†
Chpt 12
It was this conservative mullah's way of showing his support for educating all the children of Korphe, even the girls.†
Chpt 12
Today was Juma, or Friday, the day mullahs unleashed their most fiery sermons to mosques packed with excitable young men.
Chpt 13 *

mullahs = Muslim religious teachers
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.†
Chpt 13

mullah = a Muslim religious teacher or leader
The grizzled mullah nodded once, as if satisfied, and left Mortenson alone with the guards.†
Chpt 13
This mullah is not about Islam!†
Chpt 15
We need to talk to a mullah more powerful than him.†
Chpt 15
In the small mountain villages where we work, a local mullah, even a crooked one, has more power than the Pakistani government.†
Chpt 15
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.†
Chpt 15
He'd built one school, been threatened by an enraged mullah, assembled an American board and a scruffy Pakistani staff.†
Chpt 15
Parvi explained that it was best that they meet in a public place, until the mullah had made up his mind about the infidel, and suggested this busy lot near Mortenson's hotel.†
Chpt 15
It may be helpful, Inshallah, with some of the other village mullahs.†
Chpt 15

mullahs = Muslim religious teachers or leaders
Finally, an Iranian mullah visited me, myself, at my home.†
Chpt 16

mullah = a Muslim religious teacher or leader
Inside stood the eight imposing black-turbaned members of the Council of Mullahs.†
Chpt 16

mullahs = Muslim religious teachers or leaders
They would see that most people who practice the true teachings of Islam, even conservative mullahs like Syed Abbas, believe in peace and justice, not in terror.†
Chpt 17
Mullah Gulzar sat under a blue tarp in a black skullcap and struggled to his feet after Apo led Mortenson in.†
Chpt 17

mullah = a Muslim religious teacher or leader
When they were all seated cross-legged on a plastic tablecloth that covered the warm sand, Apo prodded the mullah to tell his story.†
Chpt 17
The bright light filtering through the blue tarp reflected off the mullah's oversized glasses and obscured his eyes as he spoke, giving Mortenson the unsettling impression he was listening to a blind man wearing opaque blue lenses.†
Chpt 17
"We didn't want to come here," Mullah Gulzar said, stroking his long wispy beard.†
Chpt 17
"When we came to the Skardu town, the army told us to make our home here," Mullah Gulzar said.†
Chpt 17
Mortenson took the old mullah's hand in both of his.†
Chpt 17
"Thanks to Allah Almighty for that," the mullah said.†
Chpt 17
From this new angle, the glare vanished from his glasses and Mortenson saw the mullah's eyes were moist.†
Chpt 17
For your mal-la khwong, for your kindness in fulfilling our prayers, I can offer you nothing," Mullah Gulzar said.†
Chpt 17
Their simple belief in a messianic, puritan Islam which had been drummed into them by simple village mullahs was the only prop they could hold on to and which gave their lives some meaning.†
Chpt 19

mullahs = Muslim religious teachers or leaders
"The most famous of these madrassas, the three-thousand-student Darul Uloom Haqqania, in Attock City, near Peshawar, came to be nicknamed the "University of Jihad" because its graduates included the Taliban's supreme ruler, the secretive one-eyed cleric Mullah Omar, and much of his top leadership.†
Chpt 19

mullah = a Muslim religious teacher or leader
Haidar, the village mullah, stood scanning the darkness toward Afghanistan.†
Chpt 19
The intricate obstinacies of village mullahs opposed to educating girls were invisible from this altitude, Mortenson thought.†
Chpt 19

mullahs = Muslim religious teachers or leaders
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.†
Chpt 20

mullah = a Muslim religious teacher or leader
Mustafa was acquainted with the Taliban ambassador, Mullah Abdul Salaam Zaeef, and introduced Mortenson one evening at the Nadia.†
Chpt 20
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!†
Chpt 20
"Only tea," Mullah Zaeef said in Urdu.†
Chpt 20
Mullah Zaeef was in an impossible situation, Mortenson realized, as their talk turned to the coming war.†
Chpt 20
Mullah Omar, the supreme Taliban leader, like most of the high-ranking diehards who surrounded him, had only a madrassa education.†
Chpt 20
"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.†
Chpt 20
"Mullah Omar thinks there is still time to talk our way out of war," Zaeef said wearily.†
Chpt 20
Mullah Omar would continue to think he could talk his way out of war until American cruise missiles began obliterating his personal residences.†
Chpt 20
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.†
Chpt 20
On the computer monitor in his basement Mortenson had studied photos of U.S. soldiers, in the captured Kandahar home of supreme Taliban leader Mullah Omar, sitting on his giant, gaudily painted Bavarian-style bed, displaying the steel footlockers they had found underneath it, stacked full of crisp hundred-dollar bills.†
Chpt 21
From his contacts in the military, he learned that Taliban ambassador Mullah Abdul Salaam Zaeef, with whom he'd sipped tea at the Marriot, had been captured and sent, hooded and shackled, to the extralegal detention facility in Guantanamo, Cuba.†
Chpt 21
Parvi told Mortenson that a few days earlier, in the middle of the night, a band of thugs organized by Agha Mubarek, one of northern Pakistan's most powerful village mullahs, had attacked their newest project, a coed school that they had nearly completed in the village of Hemasil, in the Shigar Valley.†
Chpt 21

mullahs = Muslim religious teachers or leaders
This mullah approached Hemasil's village council and asked for a bribe to allow the school to be built.†
Chpt 21

mullah = a Muslim religious teacher or leader
Mortenson would have liked to deliver dynamite to Agha Mubarek, but struggled to follow Parvi's advice, and observe, from afar, as the case against the mullah for destroying the Hemasil School progressed in Shariat Court.†
Chpt 22
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.†
Chpt 22
"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.†
Chpt 22
After Mortenson leveled a finger at the large walled compound where Mubarek lived, far beyond the means of a simple village mullah, Bhangoo set his lips firmly below his precisely clipped mustache and nudged his control stick forward, dive-bombing toward Mubarek's house.†
Chpt 22
Khan was the last to leave, deep in conversation with the village mullah.†
Chpt 23

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(1) (mullah)
a Muslim religious teacher or leader
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

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