Word: sheikhs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...since the death last February of His Eminence Al Sheikh Mustafa Abdel Razek, the rectorship has been vacant and the university split by feuds. At the same time Al Azhar's position of Islamic leadership is threatened by a swirling current of social change, and by the emergent authority of two modern, secular universities (Fuad el Awal and Farouk el Awal...
...student at Al Azhar buys himself a high, tight academic turban, sharpens his reed quills, tucks his inkhorn into his belt, takes off his slippers, and enters Al Azhar mosque. There he joins one of the attentive circles of cross-legged students gathered at the feet of a sheikh (elder, i.e., teacher), who leans against a pillar and expounds Islamic faith and Arabic letters...
...almost surely count on State Department support to win concessions in two potentially oil-rich, but undeveloped Middle East territories: 1) Yemen, which borders Saudi Arabia on the Red Sea; and 2) the Persian Gulf "neutral zone" jointly owned by King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia and Sheikh Ahmad ibn as Sabbah of Kuwait. Sheikh Sabbah last week was already dickering with bidders for the neutral-zone concession...
...accident that, even as Davies, Phillips and friends signed their final papers, Yemen's Prince Saif al-Islam Abdullah stepped from a big Phillips Petroleum Co. plane at Bartlesville. He looked just like an oilman in sheikh's clothing. For eight days he had been sumptuously dined (but not wined, since Moslem custom forbids it) by Phillips' vice president in charge of public relations. He had been flown on a quick tour of Oklahoma, Texas and California oil fields and refineries. At Oklahoma City, a sheep was roasted for the Prince; at Borger, Tex. he got eggplant...
...Beirut peddled many a rumor of orgies in his modern villa in the Mazraa section of the city. Over their tea at the Patisserie Suisse, over cocktails at the seaside Normandie, Beirutis whispered that Dahish was getting into trouble with the Government. Lebanon's good, round President, Sheikh Bechara El Khoury, frowned on Dahish...