Meaning of mukhtar | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A minor official—usually overseeing a village or town—in many Arab countries and (historical) in the Ottoman Empire and its successor states, including Turkey, Northern Cyprus, and formerly Albania.
2. A surname from Arabic.
3. Alternative spelling of muhtar: an elected official overseeing a village or neighborhood in modern Turkey.
   alt-of, alternative, specifically
4. A person acting as an agent, particularly a lawyer.
   India, historical

Examples

“Mukhtar Khan, the ſoubadar, who was attached to Azim Shaw, and father-in-law to Bedar Bukht, hoping to impede his progreſs, ſunk all the boats in the Jumna, and placed guards at the neareſt fords.”

“Afterwards, when the Raja complained against us, Mr. Ogilvy issued an order to me, No. 836 of 1845, directing us not to interfere with the jumebundee matters of the Raja, who was mooktar of his territory, but only to report cases in which he or his kharbarree might levy more than the assessment; accordingly I made several reports of over-exaction, which are on the agency records.”

“The Cypriote, like other Turkish, and, indeed, most Oriental villages, is under the charge of a head man, called a Mukhtar, assisted by a Council or Commission, consisting of three or more members belonging to a village. The Mukhtar is elected annually, and is paid by a contribution of so much per head of the population of the village. In some of the larger ones there are two Mukhtars: usually one Christian, and the other Moslem (they prefer this style to being called simply Greek and Turk).”

“On my arrival at the gate I found that the doctor was absent; but I could see the mukhtar. The mukhtar is the principal man in every Cypriote village – a kind of mayor on a reduced scale. [From St. James's Gazette.]”

“The Mudîr and Mukhtar are inferior officials of the Kaimakam. The Mukhtars, properly only village magistrates, have to look after the punctual payment of the taxes, and are responsible for them.”

“The villages comprised in the nahié shall each have a Mukhtar; if a village contains several wards, and if the inhabitants are divided into different classes, there shall be a Mukhtar for each ward and for each class of inhabitants.”

“Leaflets in Arabic on some subjects, distributed to and through Mukhtars, might do good.”

“The above areas [cazas, mudirieh, and villages] shall be administered respectively by Kaimakams, Mudirs, and Mukhtars. These officials shall meet periodically at the chief town of the district for the discharge of current business.”

“At Acre, 15,000 Druzes elected a six-member council comprising sheiks and mukhtars, their first official representative body since the establishment of Israel.”

“Having done our initial assessments of community institutions, we began meeting with local leaders to gain their support of the US effort. In Iraq, we met with secular community leaders (called Muktars), local religious leaders, academic leaders from the university and city leaders from the newly selected Mosul City Council.”

“I encouraged people to speak with their muqtars (informal mayors of small villages or city districts) and mayors about petitioning the Provincial Government for a portion of the funds for their dilapidated community.”

“He and Hal started up the hill together towards the mukhtar’s house, as the trucks rattled away from them.”

“During Israel's early years, there were three distinct types of mukhtars. […] All mukhtars were monitored constantly by the security forces, who produced frequent reports on them. […] In some villages and neighborhoods there was competition for the post of mukhtar, and winning the job was itself adequate compensation for assistance offered. But other mukhtars and collaborators frequently expected more concrete returns, and security officials grappled with the subject of how to compensate collaborators from the time the state was founded.”

“Ahmed Jasso, the leader of the village (also known as the Muqtar) told everyone that living under ISIS would not be much different from the way life had been under Saddam Hussein.”

“[W]e took leave, escorted to the gate by our two young friends, and thence by a nearer way through the ruins to our pinnace, by an elderly man, who said he was the Raja's "Muktar," or chamberlain, and whose obsequious courtesy, high reverence for his master's family, and numerous apologies for the unprepared state in which we had found "the court," reminded me of old Caleb Balderstone [from Walter Scott's The Bride of Lammermoor (1819)].”

“The Darogahs and other mofussil police officers are prohibited from employing any mokhtar or vakeel at the station of the zillah or city Magistrate, for the purpose of receiving and transmitting the salaries of the thannah establishment, or for any other purpose, connected with their public functions, except in particular cases, wherein they may be specially authorized by the Magistrate to employ a vakeel.”

“Very shortly after my arrival, the Rajah's Mooktar had waited on me, and requested that his master might be allowed to present himself, as he had much to say to me of great importance.”

“The false rumours regarding the Santhals being in arms near Midnapore are said to have originated with some idle and mischievous Mooktars.”

“One mooktar or lawyer was sentenced by Mr. Betts, for the offence which was no offence at all, to six months' imprisonment and a fine of 200 rupees—the Act being alternative, and, in default of payment, to a further imprisonment of six months. […] Did not such a state of things as regards the ryots demand an expression of sympathy from the House?”

“Sheikh Abed Hossein (Plaintiff) v. Lalla Ramsaran and Others (Defendants). […] The plaintiff in this case is a mukhtar of the Mozufferpore Zilla. […] Now in a case of this description where the plaintiff, who is a mukhtar of a Court, claims to be entitled to carry into specific performance an agreement alleged to have been entered into him and the defendants, which agreement savours of champerty, it is necessary that such a claim should be certain, fair, and just in all its parts.”

“By section 11, Act XX, 1865, mukhtars may subject to the conditions of their certificates as to the class of Courts in which they are authorized to practice, appear and act in any Civil Court, and appear, plead and act in any Criminal Court within the same limits. They cannot plead in Civil Courts. Merely bringing a plaint to a vakil for his signature […] or standing behind a pleader and giving him information does not amount to an appearance as mukhtar in contravention of Act XX, 1865[…].”

“It was not sufficient that Thakur Parshad was the Mukhtar of the Court of Wards, and said he had authority to admit the plaintiff's right.”

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