Word: emirs
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...largely the recently arrived knights from Europe who ruined the Kingdom of Jerusalem. They used force where diplomacy would have been better, and they never brought enough men with them to make force decisive. While the proud barons quarreled, the Moslems were at last growing united. By 1176 the Emir Saladin made himself master of Egypt and Syria, and turned the full force of his armies against the Crusaders. Europe was far away, and Byzantium was now powerless to help...
...with him. A provisional assembly of 60 Libyans-20 from each province-meeting under the U.N.'s wing, decided that the country should be a federal monarchy, drafted its constitution, and planned elections. Without argument, the assembly settled on a King-Sayid Mohammed Idris el Mahdi el Senussi, Emir of Cyrenaica, spiritual and political leader of the devout and powerful Moslem Order of the Senussiya, and in his own right the strongest personality in Libya...
...Emir Tallal (40), heir apparent to King Abdullah, now a psychiatric patient in a clinic at Prangins near Geneva, while his brother Emir Naif acts as regent. Was packed off to Switzerland after several violent seizures, usually at cocktail parties, during which he fell on innocent bystanders-mostly British officers. Hates the British and the West...
...Emir Abdul Illah (38), Regent of Iraq, has ruled the country since 1939, on behalf of his nephew, King Feisal II (16). Moderately able, but without stature or drive. Favorite pastime: driving through Bagdad in Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee state coach (which he bought in 1949, insured...
...confused with Emir Feisal, viceroy of Hejaz, second son of King Ibn Saud...