Word: arabization
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...Wolves. Nasser claims that the place of the Arab potentates has been filled by the British, long uneasy about Nasser's ambitions in oil-rich Arabia. Indeed, Anthony Boyle, who until last October was aide-de-camp to the British High Commissioner in Aden, recently turned up as an unofficial military adviser in the royalist mountains. Asked in Parliament who authorized Boyle's involvement in Yemen, Britain's Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home insisted that "both the present High Commissioner and his predecessor have assured my right honorable friend that they were not aware the person...
...Royal Air Force has flown 1,500 sorties against rebel tribesmen-devastating many of their villages as thoroughly as the Egyptians had done in Yemen. As much as anything, the British are challenging the claim of hegemony that Nasser hopes to carry to the conference table at the Arab summit meeting next month. Nasser wants the Saudi Arabs to join Jordan in official recognition of Yemen's republican regime, and he clearly thinks he can win such diplomatic assent if further success is achieved, not only in the South Arabia Federation but also among Yemen's disorganized chieftans...
Mamoun, a lifetime judge and political power in Nasser's Arab Socialist Union, came out of retirement to take the job. As Grand Mufti of Egypt from 1955 until 1961, he issued thousands of rulings and interpretations on religious matters. As the 39th rector of Al Azhar, Mamoun's responsibilities are even more impressive. The post carries with it the titles of Grand Imam and Sheikh of Islam, which makes Mamoun the nearest thing to a Moslem pope. Yet with Egypt struggling to slough off its feudal ways, he must also guide the university toward turning...
...early days of Islam, when conquering Arab armies swept across Christian Syria, mosque making consisted of seizing Christian churches, closing their western entrances, opening new doors to the north, and praying facing south across the aisles toward Mecca. A few decades later, Moslem caliphs began to raise the first authentic mosques, blending Byzantine and Persian architecture, and in 691 A.D. the Caliph of Damascus, Abdul Malik Ibn Marwan, completed the great shrine called the Dome of the Rock...
...that the entire structure had been so weakened by bombardment and the ravages of time that it needed renovation at once, and the Moslem nations set about raising $2,000,000 for the job. Last week Jordan's King Hussein, 28, surrounded by Moslem and Christian representatives from Arab nations, reopened the shrine, restored as nearly as possible to the way it was during the Middle Ages...