Word: aly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Islam must be a temporal ruler. Palestine Moslems have been trying for years, were still trying last week, to establish the present deposed Caliph in Jerusalem as "ruler" of a plot of ground about the size of the Papal State. In London this scheme is being urged by Shankat Ali, Moslem Delegate to the Indian Round Table Conference. But Christian Britain, who rules Jerusalem, hesitates to make the "Holy City" of Jews and Christians the seat of Islam's Caliphate. What...
...Senussites are a Moslem sect founded in 1835 with the establishment of a monastery at Abu Kobeis near Mecca by the revered Sidi Mohammed ben Ali ben Es Senussi el Khettabi el Hassani el Idrissi el Mehajiri. Ever since Italy captured Tripoli (now known as Italian Libya, divided into the districts of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica) from the Turks in 1911 the Senussites have stubbornly resisted Italian penetration of the interior. One by one other Senussi chieftains have been forced to surrender, but Omar el Muktar always held...
...public square of Tabriz, Persia, 81 years ago last week, 31-year-old Mirza Ali Mohammad was stoned and shot to death with "a thousand bullets." Known as the Bab (gateway), he had heralded the coming of a mighty world religious leader. Soon as Mirza Ali Mohammad was dead, Mirza Husayn Ali proclaimed himself the predicted leader, took the name of Baha'u'llah (Glory of God). He preached a simple all-inclusive creed, recognizing the divinity of the founders of the world's other religions. His tenets were internationalism, universal peace, love and tolerance for all, education, work...
...reason was crisp, British. According to the decree of confiscation, "H. H. Mir Ali Nawaz Khan Talpur, Emir of Khairpur, has been guilty of consistent, disastrous mismanagement of the financial affairs of Khairpur and of indifference to his subjects' welfare evinced through his continued prolonged absences from his State...
...Emir Ali did the only thing he could: lodged an appeal with the Indian Chamber of Princes. If they solidly back him up (as they were not expected last week to do) unseated Emir Ali may regain his seat...