Word: imam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the young King, attended 500 of his army officers, not only attend the service in Cairo's Quoson Mosque but donned the robes of an imam, the prayer leader, and read the prayers to the congregation. When he finished, the congregation and his officers broke into a thunderous cheer: "The Caliph of all Islam...
...Daventry 75 miles from London the Government-controlled British Broadcasting Corp. went into action early this week with a fine sputter of pro-British Arabic. Guest star on the opening program was none other than Seif-ul-Islam Al-Hussein, the son of the Imam of Yemen...
Yahya, the Imam of Yemen is a wily Arab potentate whose triangular territory near the southern end of the Red Sea includes the famed coffee city of Mocha. The Ethiopian war and the growing power of Italy on the Red Sea have made Yahya the Imam an important character. Playing his nuisance value for all it was worth, he played British against Italian agents, finally threw in his luck with Italy last year. But Yahya the Imam has many sons, with all of whom he is at outs. British agents had swarthy spectacled Prince Hussein in London in no time...
...Allah Akbar . . . God is great. . . . The Imam droned prayers, snatches from the Koran in Arabic, sitting cross-legged near his pulpit in a long green robe and a green fez (signifying that he has made the pilgrimage to Mecca). Squatting on prayer rugs and matting, his congregation droned with him, sometimes leaning forward, touching their Korans with their foreheads. For two hours one evening last week, these prayers sounded in a brick building in Brooklyn, only full-fledged Moslem mosque in the U. S. It was the eve of Ramadan, to Mohammedans the holiest and most rigorous month...
...mosque, which until six years ago was a Tammany clubhouse, before that a Protestant church. Today the clean, shiny mosque looks like a Polish church, decorated in pink, yellow and blue, the Moslem star & crescent festooned with painted roses and daisies. This is natural since its swart, thick-accented Imam, Sam Rafilowich, son of an Imam in a Polish village, is a Polish Tartar, who arrived in the U. S. 29 years ago. Most of his habitual worshippers are also Tartars, descendants of Tamerlane's hordes who entered Russia 600 years ago. But at the joyous feast which ends...