Word: sheikh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foreshores. Whether on a Christian or Moslem impulse, Lord Headley during the War urged that ten interned Germans be put to death for every British child or woman killed by bombs. He made his pilgrimage to Mecca, earned the title "Al Haj" in addition to his Moslem name Saifurrahman Sheikh Rahmahillah Farooq. In 1925 he was offered the kingship of Moslem Albania, declined it when refused $500,000 and $50,000 a year...
...study political economy at Columbia University, Ali Baba, 20, son of the Sheikh Mahumud of Suleimaniye, Irak, arrived in Manhattan from Alexandria, Egypt, where he spent the last four years in college. Said Ali Baba: "Please let me say that no years shall ever compare with the five years I was with the great chieftain, my father, when he made war in the Kurd Mountains...
...intent of the missionaries'' and in particular discontinue tax exemption to missionary institutions, withdraw subsidies for mission schools. One hundred and fifty thousand pounds would be saved annually for State schools and welfare work. The petition was concurred in by the present rector of Al Azhar University Sheikh Ahmedi el Zaharawi, who promptly gave ?200 to an anti-mission fund. This reporters took to mean that the Government was interested, that things looked bad for the Christians. Half a dozen U. S. Protestant societies and two churches-Seventh Day Adventists and United Presbyterians-have missions in Egypt. Last...
...famed for its weirdly noisy ''singing sands'' and called the Riilxi-aI-Khali or "Abode of Loneliness" (TIME. March 9. 1931). Last week the U. S. State Department received its only notice of King Ibn Saud's doings from his Minister in London, the Sheikh Hafiz Wahba. Calling at the U.S. Embassy the Sheikh suavely announced that "in accordance with the wishes of his subjects, His Majesty . . . has graciously consented" to change the name of the Land of Saud...