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Definition of Hodjas
1. hodja [n] - See also: hodja
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hodjas
Literary usage of Hodjas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Fall of Abd-Ul-Hamid by Francis McCullagh (1910)
"Instead of condescending to ask the Sheikh-ul-Islam and the Liberal hodjas to
counteract the reactionary agitation of the softas, they ran full tilt against ..."
2. History of the Mongols: From the 9th to the 19th Century by Henry Hoyle Howorth, Ernest George Ravenstein (1876)
"He told the deputies to advise the Black Mountaineer hodjas to go to Ili and seek
forgiveness from the viceroy of China and from ..."
3. Turkistan: Notes of a Journey in Russian Turkistan, Khokand, Bukhara, and Kuldja by Eugene Schuyler (1876)
"... partly because she was yet a child of nine years old, and partly because Said
Azim was not of sufficiently good family, as hodjas can only marry with ..."
4. The English Illustrated Magazine (1903)
"The influence of these hodjas is supreme in the superstition-ridden members of
the harems. A long line of smart, well-appointed modern broughams drawn up ..."
5. The Women of Turkey and Their Folk-lore by Lucy Mary Jane Garnett, John S. Stuart-Glennie (1891)
"The hodjas' sermons find no auditors, and the mosques themselves soon fall into
ruin. Their favourite shrines are sacred trees growing by the side of the ..."
6. Turkish Life in Town and Country by Lucy Mary Jane Garnett (1904)
"The royal mosques have several Imams, the chief of whom has as his subordinates
all the other Imams, the hodjas, ..."
7. Turkey of the Ottomans by Lucy Mary Jane Garnett (1915)
"The hodjas' sermons find no auditors, and the mosques themselves soon fall into
ruins. Their favourite shrines are sacred trees growing by the side of the ..."
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