Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Islam moved nearer the united front it has not enjoyed since the 13th Century, when the leader of the new Pan-Arab movement, Saudi Arabia's tall, wise, Mohammedan Warrior-King Ibn Saud, patched up his diplomatic and religious quarrels with the Government of Mohammedan Egypt...
Thereafter Egypt's King Fuad refused to recognize the new Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, stopped the grain and money gifts to Mecca. The valuable Egyptian pilgrim traffic to Mecca fell off sharply. Last month, just before King Fuad died, King Ibn Saud maneuvered Egypt's then Premier Aly Maher Pasha into new negotiations between Egypt and Saudi Arabia. From his deathbed Fuad, also anxious to patch the quarrel since he still hoped to be named Caliph of all Islam,* fostered the secret negotiations...
...LAWRENCE OF ARABIA - Charles Edmonds - Applet on-Century ($1.50). A sane but unenlightening resume of Lawrence's life, pieced out from letters and other sources where Lawrence himself skimped...
Kendric N. Marshall '21, instructor in Government, who introduced Copey last year as "the tradition, known from the wilds of Arabia to the plains of China, where mothers still their babes with the word that Copey shall read to them if they are good," will preside again...
BLACK TENTS OF ARABIA-Carl R. Raswan-Little, Brown...