Word: mufti
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...Army, fit as he is, he must retire on Sept. 13, at the age limit of 64. No more the khaki and the Sam Brown belt. Dressed like plain John Citizen, the baker, the butcher, the politician and the banker, he will go his way modest ly in mufti. Ofttimes, doubtless, he will yearn for his military life, its punctilio and its elan. But the rule of the Army is inexorable, and John Jo seph Pershing likes it for its unyieldingness...
...angels, of course," said he, "but their Palestinian motives are in the main idealistic." He is on the most friendly terms with High Commissioner Sir Herbert Samuel. Sir Herbert, says he, has brought about close coöperation between him, the Roman Catholic Bishop, the Greek Orthodox Patriarch, and the Mufti* of the Moslems...
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...
Down, back of the world, a new prophet has arisen. Fourteen million Moslems is the number of faithful in Eastern Russia, the Caucasus and Tashkent. They-or at any rate their so-called representatives-discovered the prophet, and, assembling at Ufa, capital of the Bashkir Republic, they elected him mufti. The name of the now sacred gentleman is Kiraeddin Ben Fakreddin. The conclave at Ufa is reported as having initiated a far-reaching program for the unification of Islam. Similar reports have come be- fore from greater centers than Ufa, and in connection with more noted men than Fakreddin...
...well taught. Secondly it is important to note that the advent of the Artillery School will in no way disrupt the progress of courses in the University through conflicts, inasmuch as the drills which have, in the past, come at most inopportune hours and necessitated constant changing from mufti to olive drab and back again, have now been relegated to the summer camps...