shaikh's

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RAFIQ QURESHI, FATHER OF RUBINA ALI (through translator): They said that the shaikh's wife wanted to take Rubina, but I said no.

CNN Transcript Apr 21, 2009 2009
After he was gone, one of the shaikh's companions asked him, saying: "Was not such condescending kindness as you this day showed the king contrary to what is usual; what does this mean?"

The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2 Various
The servants were all busied in various occupations, and the peasantry driving out the cattle, while I was surveying the considerable remains of an old Christian church, which now forms one side of the shaikh's mansion, and is used for a stable and a store of fodder.

Byeways in Palestine James Finn