Word: rabban
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Princely Parasol. In A.D. 379, Hindu King Sri Parkaran Iravi Vanmar granted the village of Anjuvannam to an Indian Jewish leader named Joseph Rabban. Rabban was also given the title of prince, along with 72 proprietary rights including the privilege of levying taxes and such royal honors as "a cloth spread in front to walk on, a parasol, a drum, a trumpet and a garland." In 1524, jealous Arab merchants, accusing the Jews of trying to take over the pepper trade, stirred up a holy war against the community by Indian natives. Cranganore was sacked, its homes and synagogue burned...
...that one of the 13 founders happened to have made a trip to the Middle East just before the historic meeting, and thought the Arabs were quaint and Mecca romantic. And in a country of egalitarians, there is something about titles like "Imperial Potentate" or "Grand Chief Rabban" that can make any true democrat tingle...
Nosing around his brothers in Detroit's Moslem Temple last January, Fuller, him self a past Potentate, picked up a hot fraternal tip: by decree of the Imperial Potentate of the Mystic Shrine of North America, two Detroit officers, Illustrious Potentate Herbert E. Payne Jr. and Chief Rabban J. Murray Brown, had been suspended for unfraternal conduct. By Shrine standards, their sins were grievous: Payne had "mishandled a recent Temple business session"; and Brown had allowed "unauthorized persons to sign contracts for the annual Shrine circus" in Detroit...
Harold Lloyd, callow comic of the silents (and star of Preston Sturges' forthcoming The Sin of Harold Diddlebock), was elected Imperial Chief Rabban of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine...
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