Word: bismillah
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arrested some weeks ago for fomenting insurrection against the Turkish government and later sentenced to death. Leader of the dervishes was 94-year-old Sheik Abdul Hassan, who sat cross-legged on the floor of his prison cell, dressed in an expensive fur-lined overcoat, taking snuff and murmuring "Bismillah!" ("In the name of God!") The night before he was to mount the scaffold at Menemen he quietly died...