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Mr. Erbakan, a professor of mechanics, was affectionately known as Hodja teacher by his followers as well as current and former members of his now-banned Welfare Party, including Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and President Abdullah Gul.
Necmettin Erbakan, onetime Turkish prime minister, dies at 85 2011
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In the meantime, Hodja had given away to the synagogue all his valuable things.
Tillie Israel De Leon: Weaving Women's Words: Seattle Stories 2010
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And there was one story that she said something about Hodja, the wise man.
Tillie Israel De Leon: Weaving Women's Words: Seattle Stories 2010
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Hodja filled a trunk with things that were of no value.
Tillie Israel De Leon: Weaving Women's Words: Seattle Stories 2010
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The story's main character, a Venetian sold as a slave to the young scholar Hodja, finds in Hodja his own reflection.
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They read more like anecdotes or Internet jokes rather than authentic Hodja stories, as some of them feature characters like the Pope and Rabbi Mashe apart from Nasruddin.
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The kingdom of Kashgaria was with great difficulty defended against Jehangir (17901828) of the Hodja family, which had formerly ruled in Turkestan.
1825-28 2001
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Ibrahim had desired to deliver his master when he had urged the appointment of Kheyr-ed-Din: brave as a lion, keen as the edge of his own good scimitar, fanatical, as became a Hodja who had visited the Holy Places,
Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean E. Hamilton Currey
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A Turkish official on a platform read an inaudible proclamation in Turkish (a tongue understood by very few), a Hodja followed with another.
High Albania Mary Edith 1909
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A mosque is being built, and a Hodja had already arrived.
High Albania Mary Edith 1909
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