Islam, a major religion with believers throughout the world, also uses special titles. Because these titles are generally in Arabic (or, sometimes, in Persian), most are not well-known in the English-speaking world. Here are a few that are either well-known or becoming more commonly used: Capitalize when used as a title before a name, but lowercase otherwise. Religious leaders have traditionally been people who, as part of the clerisy mosque or government, performed a prominent role within their community or nation. However, in the modern contexts of Muslims minorities in non-Muslim countries as well as secular Muslim states like Turkey, Indonesia and Bangladesh, religious leadership may take a variety of non-formal shapes.
AAKHUND (آخُند) Religious Tutor
AKHUNDZADA (آخُند زاده) Low level Muslim cleric
EL-HAJJ OR HAJI (اَلحاج یا حاجې) one who has been a pilgrim
AYATOLLAH (آیتوالله) Shiite term for senior clergyman
BEE – BE HAJI (بې بې حاجې) A female pilgrim of Macca (God house)
CHALEE (چلې) Usher, altar boy
EMAM (اِمام) Head of a prayer in a mosque – could be Mullah
FATWA (فِتواه) A religious verdict
HAFEZ (حافیظ) who memorized the Holy Quran
HAZRAT (حضرت) Descendants of the Caliphs
HUJJAT-UL-ISLAM (حُجتلااسلام) Reverence
JIHADI (جهادی) Member of a Jihad party
KHALEEFA (خلیفه) Caliph
KHWAAJA (خواجه) Descendants of the Caliph
MALANG (ملنګ) Spiritualist, not formally trained – sometime supported by donation
MAWLANA (مولانا) Senior Religious rank
MIR (میر) Descendants of the Prophet Mohammad
MOAZZEN (مواَذن) one who call people for daily prayers to a mosque
MUFTEE (مُوفتېِ) Great Reverence who can issue religious rulings.
MUJAHID (مُجاهد) Holy fighters
MUJAHIDIN (مُجاهیدِین) Plural of Mujahid
MAULAWI (مولوی) Senior Religious rank
MULLAH (مُلا) Theologian
PACHAH (پاچا) Descendants of the Caliphs
PEER/PIR (پیر) title for elder, seer, Wiseman
QARI (قاری) the person who recites Holy Quran
SAYED (سید) Descendants of the prophet Mohammad
SAYEDA (سیده) A female descendent of the prophet Mohammad
SHAHEED/SHAHID (شهید) Martyr (becomes part of the dead person`s name)
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