Word: mullah
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...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...
...streets, discredited old Mullah Kashani, a dormant demagogue seeking to regain his popularity, proclaimed a "day of mourning" and ordered his fanatics to don black arm bands in protest at the recognition of Britain. Only about 50 followers showed up next day in Teheran's bazaar, chanting "Down with Britain." At Teheran University, students rioted, and two were killed by troops...
...founded a dynasty and unified and modernized Iran, was cruel and extravagant. When he slept in a town, all its dogs were killed lest one bark; he jailed his opponents, hung them by their heels and kicked out their teeth. With an army crop he once whipped a mullah. On the plus side, he reorganized the army, ended child marriage, unveiled the women, codified the civil...
Mossadegh was a master of the divide-and-conquer technique, uniting one day with a fanatic mullah to oust a rival Premier, allying himself with the Reds the next to break the mullah. He got rid of the ablest of the Shah's advisers like Court Minister Hussein Ala; he usurped the royal prerogative of dissolving the Majlis. The outlawed Communists, for supporting him, were left untouched and grew in strength...