Word: hejaz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attack on Mecca, which was instrumental in forcing King Husein of Hejaz to resign (TIME, October 13), came to an end without a shot being fired. The warlike Wahabis, subject of the Emir of Nejd and Hasa, rode into the city, made straight for the great Mosque containing relics of Mohammed, rode seven times around it, dismounted, fell upon their knees and bowed their heads to the ground in religious homage at the shrine of Islam...
Meantime, King Ali of the Hejaz retired to Jeddah, near the sea, in order to prevent bloodshed. Future developments were uncertain...
...await the death of his father for the Emirate of Mecca. As King of Hejaz, he is automatically Emir of Medina, the place to which the profet of Mohammed fled from Mecca to escape his enemies, where he died and where he is buried...
...Hejaz or Hijaz is classical Arab for barrier: hence in its geographical significance it denotes Judiasm and Christianity in Palestine and Mohammedanism in Arabia...
...time when recent events have shaken Arabia from the Red Sea to the Persian Gulf (see THE HEJAZ), the publication of this book cannot alone be described as apposite, but as an extremely useful exposition of Arabia's fight for independence which brings the reader virtually to the door of yesterday's events...