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Mullah (/ ˈ m ʌ l ə, ˈ m ʊ l ə, ˈ m uː l ə /) is an honorific title for Muslim clergy and mosque leaders. [1] The term is widely used in Iran and Afghanistan and is also used for a person who has higher education in Islamic theology and sharia law .
Mullah Baradar in 2020 in Doha, Qatar, to sign the Doha Agreement. Abdul Ghani Baradar [a] (born 29 September 1963 or c. 1968; known by the honorific mullah) is an Afghan politician and religious leader who is the acting first deputy prime minister, alongside Abdul Salam Hanafi, of the Taliban led government of Afghanistan.
A Shiite mullah with a turban on his head. Aba (Abā; Persian: عبا) and Ammame (Arabic: عمامة `emãmah) are clothes of Muslim clergy and some believe that this dress is the dress of the Prophet of Islam and should be respected. [8] Mesbah Yazdi, as a high level mullah, bestows a turban to a new mullah in the "Ceremony of Putting on a ...
Ali Ahmed Mullah (born 5 July 1947), is the veteran muazzin (caller for prayer) at the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, Saudi Arabia for the past four decades. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Ali Ahmed Mulla is the longest serving muazzin for the Masjid al-Haram and has been following his family tradition in this profession since 1975.
A still from a 1996 video taken secretly by BBC Newsnight. It purports to show Omar (left) presenting the cloak of Muhammad to his troops in Kandahar, before their successful assault on Kabul. The June 15, 1998 letter from Mullah Omar to "all Taliban members young and old", complaining that his orders are not being followed.
Mullah Shwan appeared in many ISIS propaganda videos. He was basically the Kurdish mascot for ISIS. On July 28, 2015, the KRG Security Council announced that in a secret operation with American forces, they were able to locate Mullah Shwan after spying on his house in Hawija for several days. They killed him by bombing a vehicle full of ISIS ...
Mullah Borjan (Pashto/Dari: ملا بورجان; 1958 – 27 September 1996), also known as Mullah Aminullah, was an Afghan Taliban militant commander. He was considered to be an influential militant leader in Kandahar Province .
He was famously known by the British Empire as the ''Mad Mullah". [3] In 1917, the Ottoman Empire referred him as the " Emir of the Somali People ". [ 4 ] Due to his successful completion of the Hajj to Mecca , his complete memorization of the Quran and his purported descent from the Islamic prophet Muhammad , his name is sometimes preluded ...