Word: caliphate
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...meets girls. The ladies of the cadi of Bagdad's harem want to prove that women are the equals of men-and that each is thus entitled to a gentleman of her own. Led by Harem Beauties Paulette Goddard and Gypsy Rose Lee and aided by the caliph's dashing godson (Richard Ney), who believes in limiting his affections to "one woman for all time," they strike a blow for Eastern feminism...
...battle between the Abode of Islam1 and the Abode of War until Islam triumphed-has softened to a practical acceptance of co-existence of Moslem and infidel. As the Moslem world grew weaker, fanatics called louder & louder for jihad, but met less & less response. When the degenerate Turkish Sultan-Caliph proclaimed a jihad against the Allies in 1914, it was cynically dubbed the "Holy War Made in Berlin." It was the last real jihad and an utter failure...
Divorced. By Prince Muazzam Jah, 43, second son of the Nizam ("richest man in the world") of Hyderabad: Princess Niloufer, 38, beauteous niece of the last Turkish Caliph, Abdul Medjid II ; for unnamed reasons when the Prince followed Moslem divorce proceedings by intoning "Talak" (divorce) three times before two witnesses; after 21 years of marriage, no children; in Hyderabad...
...first recorded air-conditioning sys tems was devised in the 8th century by the Caliph al-Mahdi of Bagdad. He transported snow from the Zagros Mountains via camel trains, packed it in. the double walls of his summer home...
...Mohammed neglected to set up a succession, and his oldest and closest associates chose as Caliph [successor] Abu Bakr, who immediately directed the Moslem breakout from the Arabian Peninsula. The Arabs' two great neighbors, the Persian and Byzantine empires, were exhausted by long wars...