Word: sunni
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...PoliticaIly the Syrian mandate is divided into five territories: Damascus, Aleppo, Alaquite, Great Lebanon and the Jebel-ed-Druz. The first three make up the Syrian Federation, of 'which Damascus is the capital. The religious picture is somewhat blurred, but there are roughly about 1% million Sunni Moslems, and 100,000 each of Shia Moslems and Druses in the territory, together with some thousands of Christian converts...
Wahabis. With an increasingly jealous eye, the Emir of Nejd and Hasa viewed the opportunist power of his enemy, Husein, grow like an orchid upon the air. The brow of the beturbaned giant with the coal-black beard became furrowed with anger at the irreligion of the Shia and Sunni Moslems. He would crush them, and off to Mecca he went with 72,000 fanatics before him. He would depose their upstart Husein, he would purge Islam of Moslem impurities. He, Faisal Ibn Abdul-Aziz Ibn Saud, Calif of the Saud Sect, would rule all Islam with the sword...
Albania (about the size of New Jersey plus Maryland) has been governed since 1920 by a Council of Regents (consisting of four representatives-all of whom have now fled to Italy-of the four popular religions: Bektashi Moslem, Sunni Moslem, Roman-Catholic, Greek Orthodox) and by a Diet of 99 members...
...means certain that any of the other Moslem countries would recognize King Hussein as the head of Islam. He is, however, more fitted to the Califate than most other candidates, because the blood of Koreish, tribe to which Mahammad belonged, runs through his veins; this, according to the Sunni Moslems is an indispensable condition to be fulfilled by a Calif. Then, again, the holy cities of Mecca and Medina (the former associated with Mahammad's birth, the latter with his death) are both within the territory of Hedjaz...
...into a state of anarchy and was invaded by Italy, Serbia, Montenegro, Greece, Austria. Her independence was again declared in 1917 and since then the Government has been in the hands of a Constituent Assembly and a Council of Regents, composed of representatives of the following religions : Bektashi Moslem, Sunni Moslem, Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox Catholic. Since 1920 Albania has been a member of the League of Nations...