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See also:MULLAH (Arabic maula, a See also:term which originally expresses the legal See also:bond connecting a former owner with his manumitted slave, both See also:patron and client being called maula, and thus suggests the See also:idea of patronage) , in See also:Mahommedan countries, a learned See also:man, a teacher, a See also:doctor of the See also:law, In See also:India the See also:term is applied to the man who reads the See also:Koran, and also to a Mussulman schoolmaster . In countries like See also:Afghanistan the mullahs exert an See also:influence over the populace which sometimes rivals that of the See also:amir himself, and they have been responsible for many disturbances in See also:Kabul . Among the democratic tribes of the See also:north-See also:west frontier of India they almost take the See also:place of a See also:secular See also:chief . In the See also:Indian frontier risings of 1897–98 the " mad See also:mullah " of See also:Swat led the attack upon the Malakand, while the Hadda mullah was largely responsible for the risings amongst the Mohmands, Afridis and Orakzais . |
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