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...start of World War II, fat, frisky young King Farouk I of Egypt suffered from nightmares in which he was chased by an angry lion. Haggard from loss of sleep, Farouk sought counsel of crabbed, pro-Axis Sheik Mustafa El-Maraghi, rector of the ancient Moslem University of El-Azhar. "You will not rest until you have shot a lion," said El-Maraghi. Thereupon the king went to the zoo and shot two lions in their cage. The nightmares continued. "Young fool," said El-Maraghi, "I spoke in symbols-the lion that has been chasing you is Britain...
...check for 10,000,000 piastres ($257,000), half of the royal dowry (the other half to be paid in case of divorce). The father then reached out his right hand thumb upright to King Farouk, who pressed his own right thumb against it while the Sheik El Maraghi threw a green silk cloth over both hands. Intoned the bride's father...
...Egyptian officialdom, was the bride's father, Judge Youssef Zulficar Pasha, an old friend of Egypt's royal family and vice president of the Mixed Court of Appeals at Alexandria. Religious sanction was given by the presence of Egypt's supreme religious authority, Sheik Mustafa El Maraghi, of Ahzar University, and three other sheiks, all in purple robes and white turbans. Waiting patiently in an anteroom were all the princes of the royal family, the entire Cabinet, all surviving former Premiers...
...Westerners idolize your Colonel T. E. 'Lawrence of Arabia' " observed in Cairo last week the Sheik Mustapha El Maraghi, rector of the Egyptian capital's 1,000-year-old Moslem University. "You credit Lawrence entirely with the success of the revolt of the Arabs against the Turks. You Westerners do not know that not even a hundred Lawrences could have aroused the Arabs against their Caliph, the Turkish Sultan, had it not been for the almost unlimited amount of gold sovereigns Lawrence had at his disposal. There is very little, if anything, a Bedouin would...
...house came Sheik Mustapha el Maraghi, Grand Cadi of Egypt (sort of Chief Justice of the Supreme Mohammedan Court in Egypt), stepped into a waiting carriage...
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