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Feisal II, * 16, King of Iraq, already safe on his strawberry-colored throne in Bagdad. He has been twelve years a monarch (but not yet a ruler; Iraq is governed in Feisal's name by 38-year-old Regent Abdul Illah, the boy King's crafty, effeminate uncle...
The conquering Turks immediately converted the "Church of Holy Wisdom" into a Mosque. Because the Islamic religion prohibits the depicting the the human figure in places of worship, the Turks covered over the Christian mosaic scenes with plaster and paint.
Died. Sheik Mohamed Mamoun El Shinawi, 74, rector of Cairo's thousand-year-old El Azhar ("The Resplendent") University, fountainhead of Islamic orthodoxy; in Ismailia, Egypt.
"I can't imagine what sort of reception my husband will get in your country," said Liaquat Ali Khan's wife last week. "Americans will probably think he is Rita Hayworth's brother-in-law or perhaps a distant cousin of the Shah of Iran." Liaquat Ali...
In the next three centuries, Nolasque's followers freed 300,000 more prisoners, mostly from Islamic dungeons and mostly by voluntary substitution. One Mercedarian, Raymond de Blanez, was beheaded by the Moors at Granada in substitution for a condemned prisoner. Later the Mercedarians declined; by 19th Century's...