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Mullah (Arabic: ملا) is generally used to refer to a Muslim man, educated in Islamic theology and sacred law. The title, given to some Islamic clergy, is derived from the Arabic word مَوْلَى mawlā, meaning "vicar", "master" and "guardian". In large parts of the Muslim world, particularly Iran, Bosnia, Afghanistan, Turkey, Central Asia, Somalia and South Asia, it is the name commonly given to local Islamic clerics or mosque leaders.
The title has also been used in some Sephardic Jewish communities to refer to the community's leadership, especially religious leadership.
It is primarily understood in the Muslim world as a term of respect for an educated man.
Ideally, a trained mullah will have studied Islamic traditions (hadith), and Islamic law (fiqh). They are often hafiz, i.e. have memorized the Qur'an. However, uneducated villagers often recognize a literate Muslim with a less than complete Islamic training as their "mullah" or religious cleric. Mullahs with varying levels of training lead prayers in mosques, deliver religious sermons, and perform religious ceremonies such as birth rites and funeral services. They also often teach in a type of Islamic school known as a madrasah. These three kinds of knowledge are applied mostly in interpreting Islamic texts (i.e. the Quran, Hadiths, etc.) for matters of Shariah, i.e. Islamic law.
Zakir Abdul Karim Naik (Urdu: ذاکر عبدالکریم نائیک; born 18 October 1965) is an Indian public speaker on the subject of Islam and comparative religion. He is the founder and president of the Islamic Research Foundation (IRF), a non-profit organisation that owns the Peace TV channel based in Dubai, UAE. He is sometimes referred to as a televangelist. Before becoming a public speaker, he trained as a doctor. He has written two booklets on Islam and comparative religion. He is regarded as an exponent of the Salafi ideology; he places a strong emphasis on individual scholarship and the rejection of "blind Taqlid", which has led him to repudiate the relevance of sectarian or Madh'hab designations, all the while reaffirming their importance.
Zakir Abdul Karim Naik was born on 18 October 1965 in Mumbai, India. He attended St. Peter's High School in Mumbai. Later he enrolled at Kishinchand Chellaram College, before studying medicine at Topiwala National Medical College and Nair Hospital and later the University of Mumbai, where he obtained a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBBS). His wife, Farhat Naik, works for the women's section of the IRF.
Actors: Antonio Badrani (actor), Camille Montgomery (actress), Andre Wiggins (editor), Andre Wiggins (writer), Andre Wiggins (director), Andre Wiggins (producer), Andre Wiggins (producer), Eric Corbin (actor), Roy Kerry (actor),
Genres: Action, Short, Thriller,Actors: Yashpal Sharma (actor), Chinmay Mandlekar (actor), Reema Sengupta (director), Ulhas Tayade (actor), Reema Sengupta (writer), Abha Parmar (actress), Manish Jain (actor), Sheikh Noor Islaam (actor), Akhilesh Jha (actor), Pankaj Uniyaal (actor), Mishrkeshi Jain (actress), Arjun Kanungo (composer), Ratan Lal (actor), Nazar Khan (actor), Mrityunjay Pandey (actor),
Plot: The panoramic reaction of Mumbai to the incident of the death of India's last tiger, under undisclosed circumstances. Through satire, it brings into focus the 'sensationalization of an event' by news channels, religious factions, politicians and activists, to present a critique on contemporary urban Indian society. The reactions of various sections of the society are juxtaposed with a 3 year old child's struggle to bring back his favorite animal.
Keywords: animal-activist, animal-actor, animal-extinction, child-actor, crowd-funding, india, mms, news-spoof, political-satire, tigerActors: Neve Campbell (actress), Thomas Kretschmann (actor), Steve Woodley (miscellaneous crew), Brian Tyler (composer), Robyn Wiener (miscellaneous crew), Vinay Pathak (actor), Jeannine Dupuy (miscellaneous crew), Irrfan Khan (actor), Jesse Moss (actor), Vic Sarin (director), Vic Sarin (writer), Stacey Harris (miscellaneous crew), Mina E. Mina (actor), Chris Rudolph (producer), Reginald Harkema (editor),
Plot: Gian Singh & Avtar Singh are officers with the Indian Army serving under the command of Andrew Stilwell, who lives with his sister, Margaret, in Delhi. During 1941 the trio are dispatched to active duty in Burma where Andrew is killed. Both Gian and Avtar return to their village in Sarsa, Punjab, where Gian lives with his widowed mom, Shanti. During 1947, after 350 years of occupying India, the British decide to leave, but not before separating Islamic Pakistan and secular India. Millions of Muslims crossed from India to Pakistan, while an equal number of Hindus, Sikhs, and Christians crossed over from the other side. A group of Muslims who were crossing over to Pakistan are attacked by a mob of sword wielding horse-riding Sikhs, and Hindus, including Avtar, many are slaughtered, but some do manage to escape. Muslims, in turn, kill all Hindus, Sikhs and Christian passengers on a train en-route to India. While Gian, who refuses to participate in any killing, is picking up wood for his fireplace, he comes a across a young Muslim girl, Naseem Khan, in hiding, and decides to shelter her. He brings her home with him, places a turban over head to make her look like a young Sikh lad, and hides her in a trunk from his mother. But the villagers do find out, while some want to outrightly kill her, others want her to leave. Gian donates some money for the displaced Sikhs and Hindus from Pakistan, and asks the villagers to give him some time to locate her family from Pakistan and then send her on her way, to which they agree. Gian seeks the help of Margaret, who does her best to liaise with the Ministry of Unification of Families, but to no avail. In the meantime, Naseem adapts herself to the village life, and soon she and Gian fall in love with each other. Shortly thereafter both get married, and soon Naseem gives birth to a boy, Vijay. Years later, they get a surprise visit from Margaret, who has now located Naseem's family. Naseem's is thrilled, and departs to Kasur in Pakistan to meet her family, who she will be staying with for a month. When she does not return after 3 months, Gian approaches the authorities to travel to Pakistan, but is refused as only Muslims are permitted to cross over. He then converts to Islam, changes his name to Mohammad Hassan, and together with Vijay, obtains necessary documents to travel to Pakistan, but are stopped at the border and asked to bring further proof. Both father and son sneak in through the border fence and find a room in Lahore's Royal Hotel, managed by a Walter Hankins, a friend of Margaret. Gian goes to Kasur, finds Naseem's house - and it is here that he gets severely beaten up by Naseem's brothers, Abdul and Akbar, who, along with their mother, have been holding Naseem against her will in their house. The reason: Naseem's father was killed by a Sikh, and they refuse to permit her to leave the house and return to her family. What can Gian do under these circumstances, especially with his illegal entry into Pakistan, and also with sentiments still running high against Sikhs, Hindus, and Christians.
Keywords: india, interracial-relationship, love, muslim, pakistan, partition, sikhActors: Emma Thompson (actress), Mike Nichols (actor), Jeffrey Wright (actor), Marcia Gay Harden (actress), Mary-Louise Parker (actress), Diane Sawyer (actress), Meryl Streep (actress), David Marshall Grant (actor), Ron Leibman (actor), Terry Sanders (producer), Justin Kirk (actor), Ben Shenkman (actor), Tony Kushner (actor), Freida Lee Mock (director), Freida Lee Mock (producer),
Genres: Documentary,Actors: Dave Evans (miscellaneous crew), Kyle Cooper (miscellaneous crew), James Horner (composer), Clifford De Spenser (miscellaneous crew), Tim Pigott-Smith (actor), Ruth Myers (costume designer), Michael Sheen (actor), Ray Donn (actor), Djimon Hounsou (actor), Charles Bodycomb (miscellaneous crew), James Cosmo (actor), Heath Ledger (actor), Kate Hudson (actress), Frédéric North (miscellaneous crew), Wes Bentley (actor),
Plot: Set in 1884 Sudan, this fifth film to be adapted from the A.E.W. Mason novel follows a British officer who resigns his post right before his regiment ships out to battle the rebels. Perceiving his resignation as cowardice, his friends and fiancée give him four white feathers, the symbol of cowardice, but little do they know he's actually going undercover and plans to redeem his honor.
Keywords: 1880s, 1890s, 19th-century, abandonment, ambush, army, arrogance, based-on-novel, bath, battleActors: Paul Webster (producer), Om Puri (actor), Jill McCullough (miscellaneous crew), Gary Lewis (actor), Archie Panjabi (actress), Ruth Jones (actress), Helene Lenszner (miscellaneous crew), Jimi Mistry (actor), Linda Bassett (actress), Amanda Street (miscellaneous crew), Lorna Marie Mugan (costume designer), Marinella Setti (miscellaneous crew), Emil Marwa (actor), Deborah Mollison (composer), John Bardon (actor),
Plot: In 1971 Salford fish-and-chip shop owner George Khan expects his family to follow his strict Pakistani Muslim ways. But his children, with an English mother and having been born and brought up in Britain, increasingly see themselves as British and start to reject their father's rules on dress, food, religion, and living in general.
Keywords: 1970s, arranged-marriage, asian-man-white-woman-relationship, based-on-play, big-teeth, biracial, biracial-child, british, brother-brother-relationship, brother-sister-relationshipActors: Philippe Sarde (composer), Kevin Connor (director), Arliss Howard (actor), Alice Krige (actress), Ving Rhames (actor), George R. Robertson (actor), Ronald Guttman (actor), Didier Flamand (actor), Mac McDonald (actor), Tony Goldwyn (actor), Jeff Fahey (actor), George Grizzard (actor), Daniel Gélin (actor), Keith Palmer (editor), Valérie Kaprisky (actress),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Sam Sako (actor), Charles Bernstein (composer), Paul L. Smith (actor), Tony Plana (actor), John Rhys-Davies (actor), Lionel Chetwynd (writer), Pepe Serna (actor), Nehemiah Persoff (actor), Jeffrey Tambor (actor), Ferdy Mayne (actor), Louis Gossett Jr. (actor), David Hess (actor), Barry Morse (actor), Humberto Gurza (miscellaneous crew), Grady Hunt (costume designer),
Genres: Biography, Drama, History, War,Actors: Argentina Brunetti (actress), Terry Moore (actress), Billy Wilkerson (actor), Guy Rolfe (actor), Michael Rennie (actor), Tyrone Power (actor), Frank Lackteen (actor), John Farrow (actor), Alberto Morin (actor), Gavin Muir (actor), Ramsay Hill (actor), Harry Carter (actor), Frank DeKova (actor), Travilla (costume designer), Bernard Herrmann (composer),
Plot: Freshly arrived Sandhurst-trained Captain Alan King, better versed in Pashtun then any of the veterans and born locally as army brat, survives an attack on his escort to his Northwest Frontier province garrison near the Khyber pass because of Ahmed, a native Afridi deserter from the Muslim fanatic rebel Karram Khan's forces. As soon as his fellow officers learn his mother was a native Muslim which got his parents disowned even by their own families, he falls prey to stubborn prejudiced discrimination, Lieutenant Geoffrey Heath even moves out of their quarters, except from half-Irish Lt. Ben Baird. Brigadier general J. R. Maitland, whose policy is full equality among whites, learns King knew Kurrum Khan as a boy and charges him with training and commanding native cavalry, which comes along fine. The general's egalitarian daughter Susan Maitland takes a fancy to King, even falls in love but the general decides to send her safely home to England after a kidnapped attempt when King saved her. King volunteers to take out Khurram Khan, the only man who can bring the normally dived local tribes together in revolt, pretending to have deserted...
Keywords: 1850s, based-on-novel, bathrobe, battle, behind-enemy-lines, biracial, british-empire, camp, character-name-in-title, childhood-friendActors: Natalie Kalmus (miscellaneous crew), René Hubert (costume designer), Alexander Korda (producer), Lajos Biró (writer), Ralph Truman (actor), Valerie Hobson (actress), Guy Rolfe (actor), Ronald Adam (actor), Edward Lexy (actor), Francis L. Sullivan (actor), Raymond Massey (actor), Alf Goddard (actor), Leo Genn (actor), Edward Underdown (actor), Arthur Wimperis (writer),
Plot: Set in the India of the British Raj. All the Indians are portrayed as untrustworthy, plotting to overthrow their British masters. The only 'loyal' Indian is Prince Azim who tries to warn the British of the impending revolt by tapping out messages on the Drum of the title.
Keywords: bagpipes, based-on-novel, british-empire, colonialism, drums, india, loyalty, message, palace, planShe's still blue eyed
Possibly
Then again
She couldn't be
One, two, she knows kung foo
Three, four, Kicked in my door
Five, six, I can't believe it
What a mess I made...
She might she might
She might shake up everything I am
She might she might
She might Make me do the best I can
Uh Oh ohh what have she done
Uh Oh she might be her, she might be the one
I'm into deep,
Probably...
Then again,
How could I be... ?
One, two, she just got through
Three four, what an uproar,
Five six she moves me out
And throws me to the way
She might she might
She might shake up everything I am
She might she might
She might make me do the best I can
Uh Oh ohh what have she done
Uh ohh she might be her,
She might be the one...
Her eyes are shining like a midnight sun
Oh, the countdown is begun
Five, four, three, two, one
She might she might
She might shake up everything I am
She might she might
She might make me do the best I can
Uh Oh Ooh what have she done
Uh Oh Ooh what have she done
She might she might
She might be her,
She might be the one,