| A poor woman from nearby had been paid to wash the body, the maulvi from the mosque in the bazaar said the prayer. |
| Born in Mughalsarai, in a Kayasth family of modest means, he studied first with a maulvi. |
| The girl's family had not come, and the two men did not celebrate the marriage, but brought the maulvi quietly to perform the nikah. |
| Their madrassa had a good maulvi who told her that the madrassa can bring up orphans but her mama would not let them go there because of what people would say. |
| Since 2007, maulvi Nazir and the Pakistani military had kept to an unwritten truce. |
| The principal religious officer is the maulvi, who corresponds to the Hindu Guru or preceptor. |
