All 4 Uses

imam
in
Zeitoun
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The Christian preachers she'd heard had spent a good amount of time talking about who would and wouldn't go to hell, how hot it burned and for how long, but the imams she began to meet made no such pronouncements.
Chpt 1.2

imams = Islamic religious leaders
"Only God knows this," the imam would tell her.†
Chpt 1.2 *

imam = Islamic religious leader
The various doubts of the imams were comforting, and drew her closer.
Chpt 1.2

imams = Islamic religious leaders
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.
Chpt 1.2

Definitions:

(1) (imam)
Islam: the person who leads prayers in a mosque

or for Shiites: a recognized authority on Islamic theology and law, and a spiritual guide
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)