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...English maidservant named Mary Fisher stood before the court of the Sultan of Turkey, as anomalous as a pair of shoes in a mosque, and told its zealous Moslem members about the virtues of Christianity. Her presence there, alone and defenseless, bore witness to the compelling nature of the Quaker "concern," a strong inward urge to take some action to meet a certain situation. Mary Fisher satisfied her concern, was respectfully heard and allowed to depart in peace...
...their portion of the Arab sultanate of Morocco, the French were having so much trouble with the Arabs that they found it necessary to depose popular Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef and to replace him with the ineffective Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa. The switch aroused widespread resentment in Spanish Morocco, a resentment which Franco's Fascist radio was not averse to exploiting...
...Morocco, and thence to Egypt, where his father died. In old Cairo, young Maimonides became a physician, a profession in which he achieved such great eminence (his works on hygiene, asthma and sex were remarkably ahead of his time) that he eventually became personal doctor to the court of Sultan Saladin. But philosophy was Maimonides' greatest love, and his voluminous writings, almost all in Arabic, spread his fame through Europe and Africa, as well as the Middle East...
...Saints & Sultans. When the rulers of France, England and Germany led forth the third and greatest of the Crusades, they were playing international politics on the side. England's towering, blond Richard the Lionhearted stormed the supposedly impregnable fortress of Acre, and later fought at Jaffa with such bravery that when his horse fell, the admiring Sultan Saladin sent him two fresh chargers. But Richard himself had backslid so far as to bargain with the infidel, offering to marry his sister to the Sultan's brother in return for access to Jerusalem...
When later Crusades invaded Egypt, Brother Francis of Assisi went ashore to persuade the Sultan to let the Christians pass to Jerusalem in peace. "The Moslem guards were suspicious at first," says Run-ciman, "but soon decided that anyone so simple, so gentle and so dirty must be mad, and treated him with the respect due to a man touched by God. He was taken to the Sultan al-Kamil. who was charmed by him and listened patiently to his appeal, but who was too kind and too highly civilized to allow him to give witness to his faith...