mullah

For decades, Tehran and Riyadh have battled for regional supremacy, each trying to extend its arc of influence in the Middle East using money, military muscle and mullahs.

Then, it was the arrest of a popular leader named Mullah Kareem without just cause that provided the spark.

The defense minister of this short-lived republic was Mullah Mustafa Barzani, the Iraqi-born father of Masoud Barzani.

And the third was Mullah Adahdad, 45, an unarmed cleric who was attacked with a grenade and gunned down by several soldiers.

As the platoon was leaving the compound, they came across a local: Mullah Adahdad.

A mullah at Tehran University told Iranians on official TV that Jews use jinns, or genies, for espionage.

He would kill Henry Falkins here and now, and then go down like a mad mullah, satisfied to pay the penalty with his own life.

He made Kim learn whole chapters of the Koran by heart, till he could deliver them with the very roll and cadence of a mullah.

Just before they entered it two more of the mullah's men came up with them, leading horses.

King nodded again, for a nod is less committal than a word; and the nod was enough to start the mullah off again.

The mullah snorted and went back to the fire, but he took King's cake of soap with him and sat examining it.