Word: fatimas
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...millions of Moslems from the teeming cities of India to the jungle swamps of Tanganyika, the Aga Khan was a holy figure, held in unquestioning esteem. Born in Karachi of Persian parents on Nov. 2, 1877, of a line that claims direct descent from the Prophet's daughter Fatima, young Mahomed Shah became Imam of the Ismailis at the age of seven, when his father died...
...university of Fez gathered scholars from all over the known world. The Moorish empire reached into Spain, building aqueducts, huge irrigation systems, and the great Alhambra at Granada. The present Sultan is of a dynasty founded in 1660, claims direct descent from the Prophet's only daughter, Fatima. This gives him baraka, the spiritual quality that makes it lucky just to kiss his garments and gives him special title to spiritual (as well as temporal) leadership of his people...
...liquefaction of the blood of San Gennaro (died A.D. 304), which is formally witnessed each year at the Cathedral of Naples, modern miracles run more to visions and apparitions-largely of the Virgin, and granted to the young. Examples: Bernadette Soubirous at Lourdes (1858); the three children at famed Fatima, Portugal (1917); St. Catherine Labouré (1830), who heard the rustle of silk one night and received instructions from Mary herself about the miraculous medal that is now worn by hundreds of thousands. Stigmatists exist today who, like the first of them, St. Francis of Assisi, exhibit the wounds...
With el-Shalhi gone, the King's relationship with his family underwent a marked improvement. Fatima herself had obligingly picked out two extra wives for her husband, but King Idris was not to be railroaded. He sent his Premier off to Egypt to shop around for a likelier woman (under Moslem law, the King is entitled to four wives at the same time). Three weeks ago in Cairo, while Queen Fatima waited in a village 115 miles away, Idris married the bride that his Premier had picked for him: black-eyed Alia Abdel Kader Lamloum, a ripened Bedouin heiress...
This week, to the roaring welcome of a 21-gun salute in Tripoli harbor, new Queen Alia will arrive in Libya to take her rightful place at Idris' side. The King's own family have blessed the marriage, and at this point, the word was that even Fatima feels much better about everything: she is pregnant again...