Word: caliphate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...joking troubadour for God, is inspired to start the first Children's Crusade to Jerusalem. He recruits tens of thousands of moppets, sweeps across France like a locust plague, accepts slave-traders' transportation to the Holy Land as a miracle, dies of fever as the flabbergasted Caliph of Bagdad good-humoredly pretends to surrender in the name of the Virgin Mary...
...religious advisers of popular young King Farouk, not yet 19, have long nursed an ambition to have their monarch designated Caliph of all Islam, spiritual head of all Moslems. That job has been vacant since 1924 when the last Caliph, Turkey's Abdul Medjid II, was booted out by Turkey's late Dictator Kamal Ataturk. Carefully schooled, sporty King Farouk has frequently taken time off from golf and duck shooting (see cut) to attend" Cairo's mosques in an effort to convince the Moslem world of his fitness for the Caliphate...
...King, attended 500 of his army officers, not only attend the service in Cairo's Quoson Mosque but donned the robes of an imam, the prayer leader, and read the prayers to the congregation. When he finished, the congregation and his officers broke into a thunderous cheer: "The Caliph of all Islam...
Since the Moslem hierarchy of Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Transjordan, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Yemen, India and Egypt must first decide on the choice of a Caliph, to cheers were premature but it was significant that among those cheering were Farouk's guests, the Emir of Yemen, Self-al-Islam Hussein, and Emir Feisal, the son of Saudi Arabia's King, Ibn Saud...
...Jews to the mercy of the 900,000 Arabs. Significant it was that the delegates journeyed to Alexandria to drink tea at Ras-El-Tin Palace with plump, ambitious, 18-year-old King Farouk I of Egypt, whose palace clique foresees for him the future role of Caliph of all Islam...