Definition of "imams" []

• Plural form of imam. (noun)

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• "“To think that we have to go into the lives and the beliefs of rabbis and priests and ministers and imams is absolutely ridiculous,” he went on."
• "When you hear the terms imams and ayatollah, these refer to Shiite religious leaders."
• "Under conservative Islam, sharia is "state religion" -- government by clerics (called imams), rather than government by elected officials."