All 33 Uses of

mullah

in

The Kite Runner

When I was in fifth grade, we had a mullah who taught us about Islam.
p. 15.8 *

mullah = a Muslim religious teacher or leader

His name was Mullah Fatiullah Khan, a short, stubby man with a face full of acne scars and a gruff voice.
p. 15.8

We were upstairs in Baba's study, the smoking room, when I told him what Mullah Fatiullah Khan had taught us in class.
p. 16.5

"But Mullah Fatiullah Khan seems nice," I managed between bursts of tittering.
p. 17.4

Now, no matter what the mullah teaches, there is only one sin, only one.
p. 17.9

So I read him unchallenging things, like the misadventures of the bumbling Mullah Nasruddin and his donkey.
p. 28.6

Caught between Baba and the mullahs at school, I still hadn't made up my mind about God.
p. 62.8

mullahs = Muslim religious teachers

A few blocks away, from the Haji Yaghoub Mosque, the mullah bellowed azan, calling for the faithful to unroll their rugs and bow their heads west in prayer.
p. 68.9

mullah = a Muslim religious teacher or leader

We all stand in the backyard, Hassan, Ali, Baba, and I. The mullah recites the prayer, rubs his beard.
p. 76.3

It meant catching flies in your palm while the mullah droned on and a hot breeze brought with it the smell of shit from the outhouse across the schoolyard, churning dust around the lone rickety basketball hoop.
p. 108.3

Bowing my head to the ground, I recited half-forgotten verses from the Koran—verses the mullah had made us commit to memory in Kabul—and asked for kindness from a God I wasn't sure existed.
p. 154.8

The mullah and another man got into an argument over which was the correct ayat of the Koran to recite at the gravesite.
p. 175.1

The mullah chose an ayat and recited it, casting the other fellow nasty glances.
p. 175.2

Now the last of the mourners had paid their respects and the mosque was empty, save for the mullah unplugging the microphone and wrapping his Koran in green cloth.
p. 175.4

Agha, did you hear what Mullah Nasruddin did when his daughter came home and complained that her husband had beaten her?
p. 266.6

There wasn't an Afghan in the world who didn't know at least a few jokes about the bumbling mullah.
p. 266.7

He beat her too, then sent her back to tell the husband that Mullah was no fool: If the bastard was going to beat his daughter, then Mullah would beat his wife in return.
p. 266.8

He beat her too, then sent her back to tell the husband that Mullah was no fool: If the bastard was going to beat his daughter, then Mullah would beat his wife in return.
p. 266.8

Wars were waged, the Internet was invented, and a robot had rolled on the surface of Mars, and in Afghanistan we were still telling Mullah Nasruddin jokes.
p. 266.9

Did you hear about the time Mullah had placed a heavy bag on his shoulders and was riding his donkey?
p. 267.0

We exchanged Mullah Nasruddin jokes until we ran out of them and we fell silent again.
p. 267.2

They even had the mascara—I remembered how, on the day of Eid of qorban, the mullah in our backyard used to apply mascara to the eyes of the sheep and feed it a cube of sugar before slicing its throat.
p. 285.2

On the TV screen, the two mullahs were consulting each other.
p. 323.6

mullahs = Muslim religious teachers or leaders

The mullahs decided that Ayub's son would go to hell after all for wearing his pants the way he did.
p. 324.1

There was a band of sunlight on the bed between us, and, for just a moment, the ashen gray face looking at me from the other side of it was a dead ringer for Hassan's, not the Hassan I played marbles with until the mullah belted out the evening azan and Ali called us home, not the Hassan I chased down our hill as the sun dipped behind clay rooftops in the west, but the Hassan I saw alive for the last time, dragging his belongings behind Ali in a warm summer downpour, stuffing them in…
p. 354.2

mullah = a Muslim religious teacher or leader