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Definition of Ayatollahs
1. ayatollah [n] - See also: ayatollah
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ayatollahs
Literary usage of Ayatollahs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Challenges in U.S.-Asian Policy: Hearing Before the Committee on by Nancy Lubin (1999)
"As you know, Mr. Secretary, for some 20 years since the revolution in Iran, this
country was ruled by the mullahs and ayatollahs. One of the things I wanted ..."
2. International Religious Freedom (2000): Report to Congress by the Department edited by Barbara Larkin (2001)
"Reports of military operations against Shi'a civilians also increased notably in
the summer of 1998, after the killings of ayatollahs Ali al ..."
3. Iran: Time For A New Approach by Zbigniew Brzezinski, Robert Michael Gates, Suzanne Maloney (2004)
"... 1858-1896; The Politics of Oil and Revolution in Iran; and Reign of the
ayatollahs: Iran and the Islamic Revolution. His articles have appeared in the ..."
4. Routine Abuse, Routine Denial: Civil Rights and the Political Crisis in Bahrain by Human Rights Watch/Middle East (1997)
"... a leading Iranian Shi'a jurist and at the time one of Shi'ism's five "great
ayatollahs."41 One of those scheduled to speak at the service was Shaikh Ali ..."
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