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...Since Imam Yahya of Yemen's death (TIME, March 1), rival contenders have been fighting a civil war for his desert imamate. An Arab League delegation, out from Cairo to investigate affairs in Yemen, has got no farther than Riyadh, capital of Saudi Arabia. There the delegates have shivered through the desert nights behind mud-brick walls, warmed only by their camel's-hair abayas (cloaks...
Death Revealed. Yahya, 77, Imam of Yemen; of undetermined causes; in Sana, Yemen (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...nine recognized sons of aging (77) Yahya bin Mohamed bin Hamid el Din, Imam of Yemen, in the southwestern corner of Arabia, are entitled to be called Saif el Islam (Sword of Islam). The Swords have frequently crossed each other, vying for succession to the black mattress with red cushions which is the Imam's couch of state in his capital, Sana. Yahya, who believes in one-man government, named his own successor-eldest son Ahmed, governor of Taiz province. But according to Yemenite tradition, a council of eleven elders should choose the new Imam. So the other sons...
Last week cables came from Aden to Cairo newspapers saying: "Our father Imam Yahya Hamid el Din has passed away. Ahmed el Waziry has been elected Imam and I am President of the Council." They were signed by Ibrahim. The Arab world wondered whether the Sword of Truth was sure of his facts. Perhaps Ibrahim's friends were trying again to oust Yahya. Last summer, a U.S. mission which visited Sana to sign a million-dollar loan agreement found the Imam in good health. He had recovered from an illness in 1946. But he had given up riding...
...Imam of the London Mosque, leader of the Ahmadiyya Moslems in Great Britain, crave the hospitality of the columns of your magazine-to expose the serious injury that has been caused by the publication of a picture of Mohamed (may peace and blessings be on his name) the Holy Prophet of Islam, and ... by unfortunate remarks in the body of the article headed "India-Pakistan" in the issue...