| The imam is a prayer leader, the muezzin the caller to prayers in each community. |
| On Fridays Muslims attend a service at a mosque in which an imam leads the prayer and usually gives a sermon. |
| Thousands gathered to welcome the imam of the grand mosque in Makkah on his visit to Lancashire. |
| An emir on the trip complained because the poi had been in the oast too long, and an imam cried because he missed his esnes. |
| It took until 1979 for the birth under the imam Khomeini of the second theocracy, Shiite this time. |
| Far in the distance floated the sonorous and mournful cry of the imam calling the midday prayers. |
