Word: saud
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Robed and stately sheiks of the Arabian plateau gathered, last week, to imprint loud, smacking kisses of fealty on the tip of their potent Sultan's nose. The monarch thus saluted was Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud, bronzed and stalwart Sultan of Nejd, King of the Hejaz. He subjects his nose to kisses, instead of receiving bows of homage, because his subjects are of a fanatically orthodox Moslem sect, the Wahabi, and hold that the pious should bow only to Allah. Last week the Sultan and his devout Sheiks were persistently reported to have launched a "Holy War." Menaced areas...
...Majesty Ibn Saud, warlike Sultan of Nejd and King of the Hejaz, came tidings last week of his flourishing son the Amir Faisal, 19-year-old Viceroy of the Hejaz. The tidings were conveyed 500 miles by motor caravan from the Red Sea town of Jidda in the Hejaz, to the Sultan's inland capital, Riyadh, in Nejd. There was it made known that the enlightened son & Viceroy had finally caused to be obliterated that notorious imposture, "The Tomb of Mother Eve," at Jidda...
Stallion, Slave. From Ibn Saud Husein, King of the Hejaz, to "Salubria," horse farm of Rear...
...members of the House of Osman, which had ruled as Sultan and Calif since 1517. Thereupon King Husein of the Hejaz was somewhat irregularly "elected" Calif by his adherents, but abdicated as King in favor of his son Ali, who was subsequently conquered and deposed by Sultan Ibn Saud of Nejd. 2) None of these three disgruntled Califs possesses all three of the traditional qualifications: descent from Mohammed; the status of an independent sovereign; possession of the Holy Cities of Mecca and Medina. 3) None of the at present outstanding Mohammedan potentates possesses all three qualifications. 4) Should...
...Mecca, AH, the son of Husein, strove to keep the crown in the Hasbinite family by stout resistance to the raids of the Wahabi tribesmen. Heading the Wahabis, Ibn Saud, Sultan of Nejd, harried Ali's forces, then slipped in between Jeddah and Mecca, isolating the port and cutting Mecca off from...