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From Bagdad, Jerusalem, Damascus and Aden radios began to crackle last week: HODEIDA . . . HODEIDA . . . IMAM YAHYA OF YEMEN . . . WAHABI . . IBN SAUD . . . YEMEN . . . ABDUL AZIZ . . . YAHYA . . . YEMEN...
...nothing to do with Cab Calloway. It meant that the 33-year-old movement, to build a great Arab nation under a single ruler, had reached a crisis. Huge, gaunt Ibn Saud, King of Saudi Arabia, was about to capture Yemen, last important independent territory on the Peninsula. The Imam of Yemen was reported dead and Ibn Saud's men already in the streets of the seaport of Hodeida. Belching clouds of black smoke, British and Italian cruisers and destroyers raced to Yemen "to protect nationals...
...Bryan who pontificated: "The Baha'i movement is the only power able to revive the Islamic world." Abdu'1-Baha, however, saw the movement serving a wider world. For Jews it could fulfill Old Testament and Talmudic prophecies; for Christians the visions of the Apocalypse; for Mohammedans the Redeemer, Imam-Mahdi...
...March 1, 1931. He went further and did what no Persian monarch before him dreamed of doing: gave official sanction for the Exhibition's experts to select loan exhibits from the Royal collection, Imperial Library, National Museum, the famed mosques of Kum, Ardebil and Mashad's Imam Reiza...
...this was at the time when the transCaucasian "activists" were first forming themselves. "Their members belonged to small nations from all over Caucasia, mostly wild illiterates, nomads, warriors who could remember the days of the holy Imam Schamil...