Possible Clues:

• Indian maid can go over Genesis to Malachi backwards for religious leader
• Revolutionary, greeting regularly that year foreign cleric
• Muslim leader
• A Shia religious leader
• Religious leader always given a duty – gosh!
• One commanding the faithful nanny to accept a charge
• Muslim religious leader
• Greeting Scottish banker and a rising religious leader
• On reflection, what one might have said on meeting river with a religious leader
• Name for an Islamic religious leader rarely heard in the west before 1978