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...realize the Doctor's power, glance at one of the petitions in a Persian newspaper which typically begin: "Oh, Allah! Oh, Shah! Oh, Dr. Millspaugh! Heed our Prayer...
...addition to his powders, "Dr." Pearce also does business in charms. There is the Allah Charm, which will aid the wearer in contracting a wealthy marriage and is priced at only $3.49. There is the King Solomon's Wisdom Stone, "very valuable and charged with invisible life." There is the Black Cat's Wishbone, excellent for making dice behave and prompting the selection of winning horses. And there is the Lucky Turrarie, a general charm to keep evil spirits away from the homes it blesses...
...expressed surprise, and said that I supposed President Masaryk and Foreign Minister Benes, tho 'Allah and his Prophet who founded and built up (TIME, May 5, 1923; June 28, 1926) the Czechoslovakian republic after the War, were so revered by the people that any cabinet of which M. Benes was a member would be stable. I was told that M. Masaryk and M. Benes are indeed above all parties; and that M. Benes would certainly continue as Foreign Minister in the new cabinet; but that it was considered necessary to find a new premier about whom the newly representative...
...precipitating a famine), he violated Arabian chivalry by employing his brains in war; adopted entrenchment and always watched fights alertly from a safely distant hill. Militarily secure, he accomplished great pilgrimages back to the holy well, Zemzem, at Mecca. Before his death from pleurisy in 632, all Arabia was Allah's footstool, with good prospect of Syria, Byzantium and India being lined up for accessory furniture...
...Significance. Mohammed's presumable life has now been extricated, in flesh and blood, with diverting irony, from the pros and cons of scholiasts. Allah figures in the tale as Mohammed's yes-man. For a more serious and comprehensive study of Allah, Arabia and Islam (though not of Mohammed), read Doughty's tremendous Travels in Arabia Deserta-Boni & Liveright...