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- 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.†
Chpt 2mullah = a Muslim religious teacher or leader
- 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.†
Chpt 2
- 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.†
Chpt 2
- He had Mullah Shekib's son, Baitullah, and a few other men help him.†
Chpt 2
- Afterward, Mullah Shekib would dip his finger in a bowl of sweetened water and let the baby suckle it.†
Chpt 2
- 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.†
Chpt 3
- 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.†
Chpt 3
- They rocked with laughter when she playfully grabbed Mullah Shekib's beard.†
Chpt 3
- 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.
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- A Rumi poem, one from Mullah Shekib's teachings.†
Chpt 3
- When you were out working today, Mullah Shekib came by, and I spoke to him a long time.†
Chpt 3
- Mullah Shekib will have told them.†
Chpt 3
- 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.†
Chpt 4
- Well, we have a mullah in Shadbagh.†
Chpt 4
- All villages have a mullah, of course.†
Chpt 4
- Ours is named Mullah Shekib, and he is full of stories.†
Chpt 4
- Now, one day a traveler was passing through, and, of course, he sat with Mullah Shekib for a meal that evening, as is custom.†
Chpt 4
- 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.†
Chpt 4
- And Mullah said, 'Then the Jew was a Muslim at heart.†
Chpt 4
- 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.†
Chpt 4
- 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.†
Chpt 4
- In one group, he musters the courage to slip in a Mullah Omar joke that he had learned in Farsi back in California.†
Chpt 5
- But this cannot be blamed on Hekmatyar, or Mullah Omar, or Bin Laden, or Bush and his War on Terror.†
Chpt 5
- The lungs of the mullahs inflated with enough gasps to fly a thousand Hindenburgs.†
Chpt 6mullahs = Muslim religious teachers or leaders
- They declared jihad on him, the mullahs, the tribal chiefs.†
Chpt 6
Definitions:
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(1)
(mullah) a Muslim religious teacher or leader
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)