Word: moslem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
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...
...Persians. Scholars may be engrossed by the Survey's detailed evidence that Persian art began even before Egypt's, that its course from 4000 B.C. to 1700 A.D. is the longest unbroken art tradition in human history, that it was the fountainhead of all Moslem art and the great synthesizer of the Orient, that such structural standbys as ribbed, transversal vaulting and, possibly, such minor techniques as cloisonne enamel were Persian in origin. Artists will be happiest looking at the plates...
...port of Bizerte in Tunisia 50 bearded old Moslem dignitaries, turbaned and in silk robes, presented flowers to M. Daladier. Silk-hatted French officials, in traditional morning garb, gave him European handshakes. The 7,500 British subjects of the protectorate praised French rule in a joint letter to the Premier. The Moslem population of Tunis gave his motorcade a wildly enthusiastic reception...
...farms and factories to the State. Last week the ghazi's last testament, written in his own hand in September, turned over remaining $3,750,000 worth of property to the management of the Republican People's Party, sole official political organization of the country. Under the Moslem inheritance laws of the sultans, no woman shared in a man's estate. Under the will of Atatürk, stanch advocate of woman's equal rights, women were almost the sole beneficiaries. To the party the ghazi gave these directions: pay his surviving sister $10,000 yearly...