Word: abdullah
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...rose from a satin throne and said in a loud, clear voice: "I swear by God to abide by the constitution and to be loyal to the people." Outside, guns hammered 101 salvos into the dusty hills, and a legion bagpipe band swirled music. Hussein Ibn Talal Ibn Abdullah el Hashimi, that day turned 18, was now Jordan's third King...
...both Hashemites, and cousins in the same family. Both reign over lands carved out for their grandfathers by the British after World War I. Both are British-educated (at Harrow), both came to rule through family tragedy. Hussein's father, Talal (who himself succeeded the assassinated Abdullah, first King of Jordan), lost his throne because of insanity; Feisal's father Ghazi wrapped his racing car around a light pole when Feisal was a solemn-eyed moppet of three...
...duty and a maharaja's fortune (once estimated at $75 million). Karan, a Hindu, has been nominal ruler, since 1949, of predominantly Moslem Kashmir in place of his exiled father. Kashmir's real ruler, the man who banished Karan's father, is Prime Minister Sheik Mohammed Abdullah, a Moslem. As he had long threatened to do, Abdullah persuaded the Kashmir constituent assembly to abolish the 106-year-old dynasty of the ruling Singhs. As a sop to the sentiments of the Hindu minority, however, he offered to let young Karan become the state's constitutional governor...
...slumbering bush-league dynasty. Then Feisal I (Feisal II's grandfather) fought against the Turks with T. E. (Seven Pillars of Wisdom) Lawrence in World War I, dealt deftly with the British and emerged as founder and first King of modern Iraq. He died in 1933. His brother Abdullah with British subsidies made a state out of arid Jordan. An assassin killed him a year...
...minister and handed him three gifts. The first was a diamond pin which the King said had belonged to his grandfather, Hussein of Mecca. Said Talal: "He served the British, and he died alone." Talal then gave the minister a gold-lettered Koran which had belonged to his father, Abdullah: "He served the British well, and he was murdered in a mosque," he said. Then Talal handed the minister his own jeweled dagger, and said: "I serve the British. I wonder what my end will...