A turbaned imaum, the custodian of the decaying sanctuary, comes forth from his dilapidated hut among the palms behind the shrine, at the unwonted excitement breaking the silence and solitude of the ancient mosque, but he evidently belongs to the dreamland of the past, and retires quickly from the disturbing present to meditations or slumbers in his obscure dwelling, closing the bamboo door against all intruders.
"Through the Malay Archipelago"
Emily Richings
In the autumn of 1803 he sent a fine cruiser to the imaum of Muscat, to induce him to cede a station for commercial purposes at that port.
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose
In its sacred dust lie buried our old hero Haroun al Raschid, Firdousi, Persia's greatest epic poet, and the holy imaum Riza, within whose shrine every criminal may take refuge from even the Shah himself until the payment of a blood-tax, or a debtor until the giving of a guarantee for debt.
"Across Asia on a Bicycle"
Thomas Gaskell Allen and William Lewis Sachtleben