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Like many another wealthy Moor, French Morocco's deposed Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef had enjoyed himself in two worlds. He liked fine automobiles, often wore European dress, sent his sons to French schools. But he also took full advantage of a standard Moslem privilege-plenty of women. He had two wives and 41 concubines, none of whom (according to a close friend) was long neglected...
...actions are often so closely intertwined as to be inseparable. Naguib did not forget politics in the swirling fervors of the hajj. On the hill of Arafat, surrounded by his followers, he uttered this prayer: "Almighty God, give us victory in driving the British out of Egypt, and deliver Morocco from the French. We beseech you to help Arab and Islamic countries to fulfill their aims. May the religion of Allah be strengthened, and may those who support it emerge victorious...
...Moslem families sacrifice a ram in memory of Abraham's sacrifice of a male sheep in place of his son Ishmael, ancestor of all Arabs. One ram, the most important of all, is ceremoniously knifed by the Sultan, who is regarded by the Arabs and Berbers of French Morocco as their spiritual and temporal sovereign. On Aid el Kebir last week, the knife was wielded not by Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef (who had reigned since he succeeded his father in 1927), but by a new Sultan, Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa. Ben Youssef had made the mistake of antagonizing...
...century were engulfed (but not permanently subdued) by the Islamic invaders from Arabia. The Berbers adopted the Moslem religion, but their practices were eccentric-heterodox in some ways (e.g., they eat wild boar's flesh), rigidly fundamentalist in others. Unlike the urban Arabs in Morocco, the rural Berbers have remained steadfastly pro-French...
...Paul Perret is military circulation representative for TIME-LIFE International, and his assignment, which began last October, has already taken him some 25,000 miles by car, plane, train (and, in emergency, by thumb) all over England, the NATO countries of Europe, down through Austria and Italy to French Morocco...