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"ref": "1901, John Payne, Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp",
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"ref": "2001 May 10, London Review of Books",
"text": "But then there's a Christian cleric and an imam on each of the country's three regional censorship boards, in Kaduna, Lagos and Onitsha, although more than one producer told me that the brown envelope worked the same magic here as in any other Nigerian Government department.",
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"ref": "2004 October 7, London Review of Books, page 3",
"text": "In the 1980s, roughly six hundred young Algerian men, many of them protégés of Muslim Brothers from Egypt and Wahhabi imams from Saudi Arabia, went to Afghanistan to join the anti-Soviet jihad.",
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"ref": "2021 January 13, Bethan McKernan, “Turkey drought: Istanbul could run out of water in 45 days”, in The Guardian",
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"sense": "Muslim leader",
"word": "imam"
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"sense": "Muslim leader",
"word": "ኢማም"
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"sense": "Muslim leader",
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"word": "ܐܝܡܡ"
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"word": "իմամ"
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"sense": "Muslim leader",
"word": "伊瑪目"
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"note": "used by Hui Muslims",
"roman": "āhōng",
"sense": "Muslim leader",
"word": "阿訇"
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"word": "იმამი"
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"word": "អ៊ីម៉ាម"
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"roman": "imāṁ",
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"word": "ഇമാം"
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"code": "fa",
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"roman": "âxund",
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"word": "آخوند"
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"_dis1": "0 50 50",
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"word": "ꠁꠝꠣꠝ"
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"word": "имом"
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"word": "இமாம்"
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"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "imām",
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"word": "ఇమామ్"
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"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "ì-màam",
"sense": "Muslim leader",
"word": "อิหม่าม"
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"code": "ti",
"lang": "Tigrinya",
"roman": "ʾimam",
"sense": "Muslim leader",
"word": "ኢማም"
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"word": "อิหม่าม"
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