Akhoond

The title Akhoond merely means "teacher," and he was, primarily, a religious teacher and nothing more.

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No wonder, then, that the Akhoond was a power in the land, and that Ameer after

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But the Akhoond was a real personage and no joke, and it is only recently that we have found out what a really great man he was.

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No one could tell who or what he was, many believed him to be a myth, and for a long time the Akhoond was a standing joke among paragraph writers all over the world.

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Akhoond's son does not succeed him as a teacher, but he inherits the worldly possessions of the Akhoond, and these are enough to make him the richest man in all Swat.

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British, he begged the Akhoond to lead his armies as of old.

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Akhoond of Swat had died, and immediately there was an outburst of merriment in the newspapers.

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When not busy in the wars, the Akhoond was always to be found at Saidu.

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But death stepped in, and the Akhoond passed into history.

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Akhoond of Swat -- if there be an Akhoond of Swat at present.

A Man and a Woman Stanley Waterloo 1879