Word: mulay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Five thousand Riff tribesmen danced and cavorted among the Riffian hills. "Mulay Mohammed ben Abd-el-Krim," they shouted, brandishing their swords, "Sultan el-Islam, dj'der ba-ba Spanol...
...Generous One, Sultan of Islam, Breaker of Spanish heads!" All this they shouted and much more during a week's rejoicing decreed to celebrate the marriage of Abd-el-Krim to the 23-year-old daughter of the Moroccan chieftan whom he deposed (TiME, Feb. 16, 1925, SPAIN), Mulay Ahmed ben Absalem ber Raisul, called by the press "Raisuli," self-styled "Prince of the West...
...Krim, Moorish rebel against the Spaniards and Moroccan Sultan Mulay Yussef. These officers commanded Raisuli to surrender, informed him that his life would be spared if he did Abd-el-Krim's bidding. Raisuli surrendered, ordered his 16-year-old son and his nephew, Mulai, to proceed to Sheshuan and surrender themselves to the brother of the great Moorish rebel of the Riff country. He signed a letter addressed to Abd-el-Krim himself, stating that, if illness had not prevented him, he would have presented himself in person. Only a short time before, he had written rudely...