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Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili and Ilia Murtazashvili on Afghanistan, Local Institutions, and Self-Governance

Democracy Paradox

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How Do the Mulas Fit Into Local Government?

The mula is the religious figure in the and often there's more than one, because the community will have mosques. But mullas are not clerics in the sense that they are not appointed by some one else. These are village level positions. There is no hierarchy in suni islam. So tiug you want to resolve a dispute, you can go to several of them.

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