Pacha but without avail, he shewed great courage on the occasion, as he had all the chief Geramees[F] and Mollahs against him.
In these terms the mollahs had condemned the action of the governors, and the janissaries, as the ancient defenders of freedom and religion, had confirmed their judgment.
The mollahs pronounced the governor an offender against the law and the Sultan.
The effendi mollahs draw up articles of marriage and divorce; and, in concert with the village elders, they decide all quarrels and suits between husband and wife, and all questions relative to the sale of the latter.
The mollahs take tithe of all grain, and a fortieth of the cattle.
These are busy with their ablutions; while elsewhere, beneath the shade, mollahs are instructing groups of their younger pupils, seated on mats spread upon the flags.
Twelve old fakirs, and twenty-four mollahs with spectacles, were appointed as examining officers.
It was arranged by the grandees and mollahsthat the marriage should take place the next day.
I went with Mollah Ishak to the tribes Kizil Ayak and Hasan-Menekli, amongst whom there were Mollahs who had seen me at Bokhara with some of my friends.
Nomads] Amongst the letters of recommendation with which my friends had furnished me to different Khans and Mollahs on my way, one was addressed to a certain Ishan Hasan, who stood in high repute in Karshi.
Not unfrequently some of the learned Mollahs are invited, in order to enliven the breakfast, by explaining some sacred precept or arguing upon some religious question, of which his highness rarely of course understands anything.
But Mollahs and Hadjis are of course deficient in secular savoir faire, and one pardons them a great many such mistakes.
A Pir is the Moslim equivalent of a Guru and distinct from the Mollahs or official hierarchy.
For most countries the word clergy has a definite meaning and, in spite of great diversities, may be applied to Christian clerics, Mollahs and Brahmans without serious error.
The mollahs raised objections; they said it would have a tendency to corrupt the morals of the Persians.
About a dozen long-robed mollahs and seyuds follow with timid hesitancy in his wake.
I am going to see one of the Mollahs soon, and to look at their schools and mosque; which, to the distraction of the Scotch, they call their 'Kerk.
And he was a rich man and a powerful, who had thrice performed the Pilgrimage to Mecca; and who was a friend to the governor and the kadi, and had in repute among the mollahs and imaums.
Whether the Mollahs were desirous of obtaining so doubtful a convert does not appear, but at least the Pasha was not eager.
I then turned the skin inside out, and showing to them the horns of the young ox, which fortunately I had not cut off, I demanded of the cadi and of the mollahs if any of them had ever seen a pig with horns.
It was whispered that the mollahs were working upon native fanaticism, and pointing to the presence of Europeans as a primary cause of evil which must be straightway removed.
The Mollahs here had been actively preaching a holy war, and several thousand men were reported as having collected.
The news of Ayoub's advance greatly excited the population--who had been further worked up by agents, widely distributed through the country; and by the exhortations of the Mollahs and Ghazis.
Even the Mollahs declare in the Mosques that it was not the Sublime Porte but the German officers who had ordered the ill-treatment and annihilation of the Armenians.
While the Armenians at Gürün were actually leaving the town, the Mollahs called the faithful to prayer from the roofs of the Christian Churches.
As I approached the well-remembered spot, I saw two mollahs loitering near the low and narrow entrance.
So eagerly do the people marry, hat he has several mollahs at work, wholly engaged in reading the marriage ceremony.
Indeed the city was almost shocked at the honours paid him, and some of the most violent of our mollahs declared, that in treating a Giaour so well, we were ourselves in some measure guilty of his infidelity, and preparing our own damnation.
His mollahs had wished to kill St. Francis and his companion, and the fine answer he made was worthy of his high character.
They get their mollahsfrom Bokhara, and they wait for conquerors from the Kirghiz Steppes.
No doubt they are open to mollahs travelling with caravans through friendly tribes.
The men are proud of their descent and their religion, and the crown allows their cadis and mollahs to settle most of their disputes.
Amidst all this crying and screaming a couple of mollahs (priests) went about continually repeating that the Frengis sojourning in the city had brought on it this calamity.
The Mollahs fell to protesting, but the governor gave them the following reply: "If he is a true Seid he will not be touched by the flames," and caused the culprit to be cast into the blazing pile.
We cannot be so indolent," she answered, "as youmollahs are, and spend the entire day in one place.
At this time the mollahs in Gussinje had taken up arms, and were exciting the population to religious frenzy, preaching the death of all infidels.
The procession of Mollahs shuffled back to their college with profane precipitation; the sun set, and the astounded Muezzin stood with their mouths open, and quite forgot to announce the power of their Deity, and the validity of their Prophet.
The Mollahsin solemn procession advanced to the ramparts, to shed their benediction on the victorious Hassan Subah.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mollahs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
