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plural maulanas
(Islam) A religious scholar, especially in Central and South Asia. quotations examples
At the end of his long and cantankerous life the maulana had gone against all his high principles. He had gone to a Boston hospital to look for health; he had at the very end entrusted himself to the skill and science of the civilization he had tried to shield his followers from.
1981, V. S. Naipaul, Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey, page 168
(India, Islam, Internet slang, religious slur) A Muslim person in general, especially an extreme conservative.