Word: azhar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...start of World War II, fat, frisky young King Farouk I of Egypt suffered from nightmares in which he was chased by an angry lion. Haggard from loss of sleep, Farouk sought counsel of crabbed, pro-Axis Sheik Mustafa El-Maraghi, rector of the ancient Moslem University of El-Azhar. "You will not rest until you have shot a lion," said El-Maraghi. Thereupon the king went to the zoo and shot two lions in their cage. The nightmares continued. "Young fool," said El-Maraghi, "I spoke in symbols-the lion that has been chasing you is Britain...
...this story explains why Farouk has no love for the British, why last week pro-British Prime Minister Sirry Pasha was ousted and the Government turned over to Farouk's old enemy. Nahas Pasha, and his rabidly nationalistic WAFD Party. Officially the crisis was caused by El-Azhar University student riots (and Farouk's anger at not being informed) when diplomatic relations were broken with Vichy. But the basic causes for the changes in the Government were more deeply rooted...
Both Cairo and Rome are sprinkled with places of worship. Cairo's Citadel, the stateliest group of mosques in the city, is to Moslems what Rome's St. Peter's is to Christians. El Azhar, the chief theological seminary of the Islamic world, is about the counterpart of the Vatican...