Word: mullah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mahmud knew that he must pay for his crime. He rose in his prison cell at 3:30 on the morning of the day he was to be hanged. He made his religious ablutions by washing his arms, face and the insteps of his feet, prayed with the prison mullah, and sipped tea with relatives and friends. When one of his sisters broke into tears, Mahmud told her not to worry, said soothingly that "death comes to everyone in this world." Driving in a police car to Naserieh Square, where the public execution was to be held, Mahmud sang contentedly...
...confederation of Arab states, as opposed to a Nasser-led united Arab nation. Their best bet is now Iraq. They have two Communist parties at work there. One calls itself Shorsh, and works among the 1,000,000 Kurds in Iraq. It is led by the fabled Mullah Mustafa el Barzani. who returned from Russia last October to take command of the party's 2,000 members, and of the so-called Kurdish "army of liberation." pledged to carve a national home for 5,000,000 Kurds out of Turkish, Iranian and Iraqi territory...
...emotions of the Arab masses, articulating their angriest aspirations, stirring their most vituperative violence by his press and radio, and plotting to subvert rulers everywhere, Nasser had achieved his pinnacle. This vigorous and magnetic figure, who wears Western-style sports clothes but kneels toward Mecca with the strictest mullah, had burst into history at precisely the moment when the impact of the modern West unsettled the ancient Islamic ethos of the East. With the Western gifts of radio and press, with the Eastern habits of intrigue and assassination, he had become the most feared and most loved...
...youth Ghazan was trained by a mullah in the tenets of Mohammedanism, but at 15 he was sent to school in Switzerland; now he tries to give his people the best of both worlds, only to find-like so many other men of good will in the East-that such an attempt can easily lead to tragedy. When Ghazan gets wind of the fact that the Persian army is planning once again to resettle his people, he leads them into the uplands for the summer, and they resume their way of life-shearing their sheep, weaving cloth and dazzling-colored...
Last Request. Colonel Siamak took a pen and with trembling hands wrote his last words. A mullah offered him the Koran. Siamak waved it aside: "I don't believe in God and that sort of thing." To each of the others in turn, the mullah extended the Koran. Pray and be sent to Paradise, he begged. "Paradise was the place we were going to make in this country," said one, stonily. "We know no other paradise." But three among the ten accepted the mullah's offer. Then the condemned men made one last request: to be left alone...