Word: hejaz
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Died. Hussain, 76, onetime King of the Hejaz, father of King Faisal of Iraq and King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan; on the Island of Cyprus. In 1917, aided by Thomas Edward Lawrence, he revolted against Turkey, made himself King; in 1924 he was deposed by Iba Saud, driven into exile...
Arabian King Ibn Saud of Hejaz and Nejd last week avoided another operation on his ailing eyeballs (previous operation in 1926), received with joy a prescription for "more powerful glasses" from Dr. Abdul Hamid Bey Fahmy, Cairo specialist...
London editors thought last week that Arabia was the only really likely kindling place for a Holy War. There tall, sagacious, tortoise-spectacled Ibn Saud is Sultan, and King of the Hejaz to boot. He alone has sufficient prestige to galvanize and weld Moslem tribesmen of the Near East into mass enthusiasm for an Islamic pogrom. Last week despatches from Damascus (French Syria) told that 20,000 Arabs had paraded through the bazars shouting: "Long live the unity of Arab peoples under the Sultanship of Ibn Saud...
...John and the Rev. Henry A. Bilkerd, a Reformed Church missionary from Kalamazoo, Mich. They planned to set off at dawn for the Sultanate of Kuwait, 85 miles distant, despite the fact that nomadic and warlike subjects of the Great Sultan Ibn Saud of Nejd and the Hejaz were thought to be marauding not far off. Apparently Mr. Crane judged that his party would be safe, and with the best reason: in 1926 Sultan Ibn Saud had pledged eternal friendship to the Friend of Small Peoples, had royally entertained him at Jiddah...
Bubbling with a champagne sparkle of mellower, sweeter, vintage is the tale of a Syrian from the sidewalks of New York,†† who went to visit the great, romantic chieftain of Arabians, Ibn Saud, Sultan of Nejd and King of the Hejaz. Before a backdrop colorful with the picturesqueness of desert life strides a stalwart, six-foot Sultan, who scorns and rejects Occidental customs, yet is shrewd enough to entertain visiting British statesmen with their favorite brands of whiskey, mineral water, and even "kippers." When the Britons are gone, all residual whiskey & soda & kippers are abandoned on the desert...