Word: abu
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cairo, was called the calligrapher without peer. The letters he could form with his sharp-pointed stylus were illegible without glasses. He would, on this grain of white rice, write al-fatiha (the Opening), the first sura (chapter) of the Koran.* Too he would write the great speech of Abu Bekr, the first caliph. The words he would write would make 150. This he would do, and did, for the glory of God and the wonder of men. Last week in Cairo, one Nureddon Bey Mustafa, looked long at the grain of white rice with its Koranic minutiae, found...
...reception is certain to be a mob scene, the envy of Producers D. W. Griffith or Cecil B. De Mille. Imagine the quandary of even a well-informed newspaper correspondent, cornered perhaps by Pra Sundra Vachana, First Secretary of the Siamese legation, or Abu-el-Enein Salem Effendi, second attaché of the Egyptian legation, with the inquiry: "Monsieur, will you be so kind as to point out to me the gentlemen who have recently distinguished themselves in the operations of the Congress...