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...inhabitants roam about and return to a fixed settlement. Others are more or less fixtures. In a country of this nature, where whole states are moved on the backs of camels, lies the cradle of Islam, and that cradle was rocked last week by the terrible hand of Emir Faisal Ibn Abdul-Aziz Ibn Saud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEJAZ: Religious War | 10/13/1924 | See Source »

...Wahabites of Nejd (central Arabian country without precise bound- aries) descended upon the town of Taif, 70 miles southeast of Mecca, in the Hejaz, over which Hussein is Emir. According to a Mecca message...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARABIA: Hejamy Massacre | 9/22/1924 | See Source »

...Homeric (White Star)-"H. R. H. the Emir of Kurdistan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coming & Going: Jul. 21, 1924 | 7/21/1924 | See Source »

...numerous than locomotives, traveling is neither comfortable, rapid nor safe-even for Kings. King Hussein of Hedjas set out upon a tour of Arabia some weeks ago. Near Petra in Kerak (Trans-jordania) he was attacked last week by a band of Wahabis, who owe their allegiance to the Emir of Riyadh*, Abd el-Aziz es-Saud. After a long struggle, King Hussein's escort repelled the attackers. The trouble between King Hussein and the Emir of Riyadh is over the demarcation of the eastern boundary of Hedjas, the alleged aspiration of King Hussein to the Caliphate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Traveling in Arabia | 1/28/1924 | See Source »

...trouble between King Hussein and the Emir of Riyadh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Jan. 28, 1924 | 1/28/1924 | See Source »

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