Word: imamate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...teeming cities of India to the jungle swamps of Tanganyika, the Aga Khan was a holy figure, held in unquestioning esteem. Born in Karachi of Persian parents on Nov. 2, 1877, of a line that claims direct descent from the Prophet's daughter Fatima, young Mahomed Shah became Imam of the Ismailis at the age of seven, when his father died...
...minority sect of Islam, whose origins lie deep in the feuds that rent the faithful after the death of the Prophet Mohammed, the Ismailis believe essentially that life is good and should be lived to the full. If at times their new Imam was seen in the public press to be sipping a glass of wine in contravention of the Prophet's orders, it could always be supposed that his divine powers turned the wine into water before it reached his lips, and "after all," as one of the faithful was supposed to have said, "why shouldn...
...crafty imperial hand. The sultanate of Muscat and Oman commands, like an Arabian Gibraltar, the entry to the Persian Gulf. In 1955 a fifth column of Saudi Arabian agents with oil-glazed eyes was busily subverting the sultan's power and touting the claims of the euphonically titled Imam of Oman. Four British-officered armies of the sultan set about trying to sweep the Imam out of Oman...
...spring of 1953, old El Glaoui got into his Cadillac, began rounding up signatures demanding the Sultan's abdication. The Glaoui was armed with a photograph of the Sultan's lissome daughter Aisha in a one-piece bathing suit. How could Mohammed be Imam to his people when he allowed his daughter to expose herself in public, offending every right-thinking Moslem? Urged on by the French, back-country chiefs signed up, until El Glaoui had the signatures of 311 of Morocco's 323 caids. In a matter of days a crestfallen Sidi Mohammed was bundled onto...
...been produced in the Aden Protectorate, or in Yemen, but Egyptian visitors and Russian technicians (trickling into Yemen in twos and threes, ostensibly to service arms received under the 1956 Yemen-Soviet pact) have told the Imam how oil enriches Saudi Arabia. Claiming sovereignty over the neighboring protectorate, whose borders he has never formally recognized, the Imam has collected several thousand tribesmen, a dozen or more disaffected sheiks and sultans, a few embittered pretenders to the various petty thrones, and is waging a fugitive war on the British. The turbaned Yemeni guerrillas are a barefoot rabble carrying unoiled Mausers, curved...