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...adolescence helping his parents sell slaves. The Digna family was very rich. In 1882 the British again forbade slave-trading. The Dervish Mahdi proclaimed a Holy War and Osman Digna, brown and skinny, with an evil face, round shoulders, a hawk nose, joined the rebellion, achieved a title "Emir of the Dervish of God." He beat General Baker at Tokar. He fought General Gordon at Khartum and Kitchener at Omdurman. Three times he was reported dead. He came to life again. With his brown spearmen he broke the British square...
Mohammed in London. A Moslem mosque, the first in the British Isles, other than two temporary temples, has been dedicated in the London suburb of Southfields. The opening ceremony was performed by Emir Feisal, King of Iraq, third son of the King of the Hedjaz. Mohammedan worshipers in England are a small but steadily growing body. Rowland George Allanson Allanson-Winn, Fifth Baron Headley, is a leader of the British activities of the sect...
...sons of the prophet are hardy and bold And quite unaccustomed to fear; But of all-the most reckless of life and of limb Was Abdul, the Bulbul Emir! . . . When they wanted a man to encourage the van Or to shout 'Attaboy!' in the rear, Or to storm a redoubt, They always sent out, For Abdul, the Bulbul Emir...
...novelists on record who can spatter their pages with italicized words-jellabias, bassourabs, girbas, tohs, fil-fil, mehara, hareem, Bismillah!-without seeming unduly affected. His dialogs crackle, his humor sparkles. He lets Mary Van- brugh mock his hero throughout with snatches from the song of Abdul, the Bulbul Emir. He introduces Mary's Cockney maid, Maudie, to ridicule "sheik fiction" of the E. M. Hull type...
...Assumed by the early princes of Afghanistan, Sind and Bokhara with a significance roughly equivalent to "Sultan" ; elsewhere in the East equivalent to "Commander," "Lord" (in the British sense) or simply "chieftain." The Occidental "Admiral" was derived or corrupted from the Oriental "Amir," "Emir," "Ameer...