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...Palestinians, and beat them to the punch by signaling for a rising at the army's Zerka headquarters. Then, taking the untrustworthy Abu Nuwar with him, he rushed out to confront the rampaging Bedouins, narrowly saved his quaking general from being shot, and won wild cheers from the tribesmen by leaping atop an armored car and shouting: "If you do not want me as your King, I will...
Crushed by a Mountain. Such indifference was of no avail when the mighty Mongol hordes, headed by Kubla Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan, arrived at the gates of fragrant Hangchou. Before his fierce tribesmen the southern capital fell-crushed, one Chinese historian wrote, as "the Sacred Mountain T'ai would crush an egg." What followed was a galling 100-year reign by the Mongol foreigners...
...monks' kindness quickly spread. Soon the monks were treating some 200 Berbers a day at their newly built dispensary, sheltering and educating a flock of 20 orphan boys. No attempt at conversion was made. In fact, monks encouraged the young Moroccans to worship actively in their Moslem religion. Tribesmen and city dwellers respected the Benedictines, bestowed on them a title of high honor: "True Moslems...
...lectures and discussions, and as many as 1,000 spectators crowded into the priory on weekends. A visiting Catholic bishop sat on the floor and ate mutton from a common bowl with the Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs and a Moslem scholar, listened with a Jewish dignitary while tribesmen beat out Arab rhythms on goatskin tam-tams. "We saw that people living together for three weeks were quickly becoming friends," said Father Martin. "We learned how freely a Moslem and Christian can discuss their faiths, without any compromise on either side." The sultan himself addressed seminar members at his palace...
...Scrollery. Today the scholars for the most part leave the search to the tribesmen, who have become highly skilled in the work. The Bedouins sift with timeless patience through four-foot layers of dust and bat dung, spoonful by spoonful, to find the tiny fragments of black and crumbly leather-often smaller than a postage stamp-that they know will make them rich. The Jordan government has given the Ta'amireh Bedouins a cave-hunting monopoly-making the Qumran area a military zone, and policing it to keep other tribes from muscling in on the scroll rush...