Word: islamic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...instance of the Axis policy of goading the British and French by flattering the Arab. Although Benito Mussolini allows his Arabs in Libya precious little freedom, he has long been mightily concerned about Arab independence in French-mandated Syria and British-mandated Palestine. Il Duce proclaimed himself "Protector of Islam" two years ago, but last spring he nevertheless invaded Albania, a predominantly Moslem country. In Germany hand-picked Arabs are invited as honor guests to the Nazi Party's annual Congress at Nürnberg, where they usually hear Nazi orators bait the Jews. Both Nazi and Fascist newspapers...
...religious advisers of popular young King Farouk, not yet 19, have long nursed an ambition to have their monarch designated Caliph of all Islam, spiritual head of all Moslems. That job has been vacant since 1924 when the last Caliph, Turkey's Abdul Medjid II, was booted out by Turkey's late Dictator Kamal Ataturk. Carefully schooled, sporty King Farouk has frequently taken time off from golf and duck shooting (see cut) to attend" Cairo's mosques in an effort to convince the Moslem world of his fitness for the Caliphate...
...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...
Since the Moslem hierarchy of Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Transjordan, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Yemen, India and Egypt must first decide on the choice of a Caliph, to cheers were premature but it was significant that among those cheering were Farouk's guests, the Emir of Yemen, Self-al-Islam Hussein, and Emir Feisal, the son of Saudi Arabia's King, Ibn Saud...
Rafael Sabatini's 34th adventure story, The Sword of Islam (Houghton Mifflin, $2.50), compares favorably with his best work (Scaramouche, Captain Blood). As dramatic as Italian opera without music, it is as ornately composed as Italian pastry. Laid in the 16th Century, it concerns one Prospero Adorno, wide-browed, slim-hipped soldier-poet, who first appears as commander of a naval squadron blockading Genoa. He changes sides several times, several times buys and talks his way out of captivity, is dishonored, vindicated, at last makes mincemeat of the Moslems, wins beautiful Gianna. Who fights whom is immaterial-the main...