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There was a gentle tapping at the door, which the vizier hastened to open, and returned with the news that the chief of the mollahs humbly solicited the favour of an audience.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various

The crowds of men mostly wore the Kurdish or Turkish costume, but black-robed and white-turbaned Seyyids and mollahs were not wanting.

From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)

The mollahs and moonshees and treasurers took jewels for the Zenana every moon, and for the gifts of the princes.

From A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story by Savage, Richard

Then the infant, stiffened and mummied in its swaddling clothes, is brought in, and is laid on the floor by one of the mollahs.

From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)

A Persian in gown and turban steps quietly up behind us in a quiet street, and asks if we are mollahs.

From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Stevens, Thomas