MULLAH (Arabic maula, a

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• TERM

term which originally expresses the legal

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• BOND
• BOND, SIR EDWARD AUGUSTUS (1815-1898)

bond connecting a former owner with his manumitted slave, both

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• PATRON

patron and client being called maula, and thus suggests the

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• IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

idea of patronage)  , in Mahommedan countries, a learned man, a teacher, a doctor of the law, In India the term is applied to the man who reads the Koran, and also to a Mussulman schoolmaster . In countries like Afghanistan the mullahs exert an influence over the populace which sometimes rivals that of the amir himself, and they have been responsible for many disturbances in Kabul . Among the democratic tribes of the north-west frontier of India they almost take the place of a secular chief . In the Indian frontier risings of 1897–98 the " mad mullah " of Swat led the attack upon the Malakand, while the Hadda mullah was largely responsible for the risings amongst the Mohmands, Afridis and Orakzais .