(1) While I was offering a supererogatory prayer, the imam entered the obligatory prayer.(2) The imam is a prayer leader, the muezzin the caller to prayers in each community.(3) His father, the imam of a neighborhood mosque that was destroyed in tribal conflict, was killed in prison.(4) He was walking with an imam who feared his mosque was under threat.(5) In it the man or father functions as the imam in accordance with the patriarchal nature of Islam.(6) He was the son of the imam at the Mapiliyia Mosque and provincial Islamic cleric.(7) The bilal calls the faithful to prayer, and the imam leads them in prayer.(8) On Fridays Muslims attend a service at a mosque in which an imam leads the prayer and usually gives a sermon.(9) It would be mad for people just to run off to the local mosque and expect the imam to greet you with open arms.(10) The men sat outside the house with the imam , who led the wedding prayers.(11) While there is a prayer leader, or imam , in the mosque, they are not a priest, simply a person who knows a great deal about Islam.(12) Thousands gathered to welcome the imam of the grand mosque in Makkah on his visit to Lancashire.(13) There are a number of traditional religious practitioners as well as Muslim imams , Catholic priests, and Protestant ministers.(14) Muezzins invoke a call to prayer, reminding everyone it is either time to pray or to call them to the mosque, and imams lead the prayers.(15) A shortage of qualified imams means British mosques look abroad for clerics, often to Saudi Arabia or Pakistan.(16) Among those who attended were several imams of mosques and teachers at Muslim madrasas.
