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King Hussein of the Hedjaz, with-in whose realm lie the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, last week accepted the office of Calif tendered him by the Arabs of the Hedjaz, Transjordania and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. In an interview he showed himself melancholy and foreboding over the consequences of his action. Said Hussein: "I have not sought or desired the Califate. It has been thrust upon me. From everywhere they come...
...Islam. He is, however, more fitted to the Califate than most other candidates, because the blood of Koreish, tribe to which Mahammad belonged, runs through his veins; this, according to the Sunni Moslems is an indispensable condition to be fulfilled by a Calif. Then, again, the holy cities of Mecca and Medina (the former associated with Mahammad's birth, the latter with his death) are both within the territory of Hedjaz...
...attempt to pass among the Arabs in any disguise, but, wherever he went, bluntly proclaimed himself an Englishman and a Christian. Supporting himself largely by the sale of medicines, among people who preferred spells and amulets to the drugs of Western science, he traveled with the Mecca pilgrimage from Damascus as far as Medain Salih, later wandering through the vast, waterless marches of Central Arabia until he reached the hills and oasis of Kheybar-then south again with a caravan to the Mecca region, ending at the English Consulate at Jidda-a two years' saga of fortitude. And every...
...deposed Sultan, Mohammed VI, appointed a delegation of nine to accompany him to Lausanne, where he intends to plead the cause of Islam against the Kemalists. He has left Mecca in the Hedjaz, where he was the guest of King Hussein, and is now en route for Switzerland...
...Maya religious cults. In the mud at the bottom of this well have been found human skeletons - the most beautiful maidens were hurled to death here at annual festivals to propitiate the rain gods - and extraordinary relics of jade, mosaics, pottery, weapons, balls of copal- offerings brought to this Mecca by pilgrims from all over the Mayan world...