Word: ibn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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; the status of an independent sovereign; possession of the Holy Cities of Mecca and Medina. 3) None of the at present outstanding Mohammedan potentates possesses all three qualifications. 4) Should...
With the spring sun beginning to evaporate the awful ditch-bilge into which Morocco is annually transformed by the winter rains, there emerged into modest headlines that fierce and intractable Riffian, the Amir Muhammad ibn Abd-el-Karim...
Bluffing on the part of the Angora Government began by calling four more classes to the Turkish colors, the massing of four divisions of cavalry at Jezire-ibn-Omar, 20 miles behind the Mosul frontier, and mild efforts to prepare the Dardanelles against a possible naval threat from Britain. The Jumhuiet, famed Turkish Government journal, announced: "They are merely measures of national defense . . . since the emasculate League of Nations wallows as a mere servile instrument of British dictatorship. A recourse to arms remains as our only means of defending our rights...
...Orthographists battled and took toll of sach other over this famous name last week. When fully and correctly written and spelled, it is said to be "Amir Muhammad-ibn Abd-el-Karim." Translated, 'Amir" is the Arabic equivalent for "Prince"; "Muhammad," of course, the Arabic spelling of "Mohammed" ; "ibn," "son"; "Abd," "of the servant"; and "ul-Karim," "of the Gracious One" (i. e. God). The whole name may thus be translated "Prince Mohammed, Son of the Servant of God"; "Mohammad" being the Prince's "given name," and "Servant of God" his "family name...
...Mecca, AH, the son of Husein, strove to keep the crown in the Hasbinite family by stout resistance to the raids of the Wahabi tribesmen. Heading the Wahabis, Ibn Saud, Sultan of Nejd, harried Ali's forces, then slipped in between Jeddah and Mecca, isolating the port and cutting Mecca off from...