Word: sherif
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eventually] I was circumcised and made Mohammedan. ... I married the daughter of an old sherif, and became the recognized chief of my section of the tribe. She was a beautiful little creature of about 15, with great brown eyes and a Rosenknospe mouth. She was my first Arab wife. . . . Arab girls are always in love with the first white stranger they...
...chill morning last week the French sentry at Ize Marouene, an outpost north of Targuist, spied a cloud of dust which resolved itself into eight mounted men. Two were French officers, four were native riflemen. In their midst rode two portly figures in loose Riffian garments. One was the Sherif Hamedou Quedzani, chief of the Sanadas tribe, the envoy through whom the final details of submission had been negotiated. The second Riffian, a plump but well knit man with a shrewd impassive face and hard luminous eyes, was of course Mohammed ben Abd-El-Krim...
...Colonel Ronchetti, incurred no active resistance; the Senussites are familiar enough with European armaments to realize their hopeless impotence. Italian-censored radio despatches declared that the Senussite chieftains performed the ceremony of submission while the Italian flag was unfurled from a specially imported staff. Later, Colonel Ronchetti appointed the Sherif Pasha el Gariani custodian of the Senussites' holy places...