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Abdullah-ibn-Husein, Emir of Trans-Jordan, is a short, plump, jovial fighting man who comes from a long line of noble fighting men. His father was Husein-ibn-Ali, onetime King of Hejaz, and he traces his ancestry in the male line straight back to the son of the daughter of Mohammed. He likes to drive in swift motorcars, breed fancy camels and play chess all night...
Lawrence was right. Abdullah fought well for the British in World War I, but his brother Faisal was a more brilliant leader. After the war the entire family was established in new Eastern kingdoms: Father Husein in Hejaz (whence his son AH was chased by that tough man Ibn Saud), Faisal in Syria (whence he was chased by the French), Abdullah in Trans-Jordan, which was set up by the British as a link between Egypt and Iraq and a potential threat to French-mandated Syria. Through the process of raiding his treasury and letting the British bail...
Stallion, Slave. From Ibn Saud Husein, King of the Hejaz, to "Salubria," horse farm of Rear...
Admiral Gary Travers Grayson in Culpeper County, Va., came two gifts-an Arabian stallion and a male Arabian slave. Besides admiring that friend of small nations, Woodrow Wilson, to whom Admiral Grayson was personal physician,* King Husein is well aware that Admiral Grayson is as eminent a turfman as he is a sailor. Grateful, Admiral Grayson stabled the stallion. The slave he returned with his respects...
...Turkish Parliament abolished the Sultanate, deposed the Sultan-Calif Mohammed VI and conferred the Califate upon his cousin, Prince Abdul Mejid. Subsequently (1924) it abolished the Califate and banished from Turkey all members of the House of Osman, which had ruled as Sultan and Calif since 1517. Thereupon King Husein of the Hejaz was somewhat irregularly "elected" Calif by his adherents, but abdicated as King in favor of his son Ali, who was subsequently conquered and deposed by Sultan Ibn Saud of Nejd. 2) None of these three disgruntled Califs possesses all three of the traditional qualifications: descent from Mohammed...