Word: sultanism
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...squalid, sweltering Muscat last week the Sultan of Oman was glad within him: from Washington had come good news. Henry Lewis Stimson, the faraway, almost mythical Secretary of State of the U. S. was in a mood to play Santa Claus. His gift: revision of a treaty into which Sultan Seyed Syeed Bey was inveigled by shrewd Yankee traders 97 years ago. which provided that U. S. citizens should always be welcomed to Oman's ports, be free to sell or barter their wares without being charged a tariff duty of more than 5%. Also included was a clause...
Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade by Philippe Gaubert and the Paris Conservatory Orchestra (Columbia, $12)?An excellent recording of the popular picture-music based on the fantastic tales with which Scheherazade supposedly beguiled the Sultan Schahriar over a period of 1,001 nights...
...Sultan Moulay Ismail, "The Bloodthirsty," fell to grieving over the moral and physical disintegration of his Arab soldiers. He noticed that the black slaves brought to him from distant Senegal were lion-muscled, superbly built, and as fierce fighters as those ancient Arabs from North Africa who in the 8th Century had swept across southern Spain...
From Gao the captive lines of men and maidens marched north to Marrakesh (Morocco City). Once inside the city, chains were knocked off, the Negro men were told to pick their own brides and mate with them forthwith. The great mass-mating lasted for weeks. Sultan Moulay Ismail obtained as an eventual result the most powerful army in North Africa. He benevolently gave each couple a strip of land to till and the choice of either a donkey or a camel...
Among the million-odd descendants of the mass marriage who celebrated its anniversary last week, none are more famed than the "Senegalese Black Guard," all six feet tall and black as ebony. Night and day they guard the person of Morocco's present Sultan, sparse-bearded, 19- year-old Sidi Mohammed (TIME...