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  • His divan room was crowded with visitors of congratulation: such as shaikhs of villages, and some dignified Arab chiefs; the latter interceding on behalf of the men recently captured by the quarantine people; the former soliciting their official investitures for their several districts.

    Byeways in Palestine James Finn

  • After the bombing, one of Egypt's highest-ranking Muslim shaikhs and Grand Mufti of Egypt, Ali Goma'a, said, "This is not just an attack on Copts, this is an attack on me and you and all Egyptians, on Egypt and its history and its symbols, by terrorists who know no God, no patriotism, and no humanity."

    Sumbul Ali-Karamali: Egyptian Muslims And Christians Rising Up Together Sumbul Ali-Karamali 2011

  • After the bombing, one of Egypt's highest-ranking Muslim shaikhs and Grand Mufti of Egypt, Ali Goma'a, said, "This is not just an attack on Copts, this is an attack on me and you and all Egyptians, on Egypt and its history and its symbols, by terrorists who know no God, no patriotism, and no humanity."

    Sumbul Ali-Karamali: Egyptian Muslims And Christians Rising Up Together Sumbul Ali-Karamali 2011

  • After the bombing, one of Egypt's highest-ranking Muslim shaikhs and Grand Mufti of Egypt, Ali Goma'a, said, "This is not just an attack on Copts, this is an attack on me and you and all Egyptians, on Egypt and its history and its symbols, by terrorists who know no God, no patriotism, and no humanity."

    Sumbul Ali-Karamali: Egyptian Muslims And Christians Rising Up Together Sumbul Ali-Karamali 2011

  • After the bombing, one of Egypt's highest-ranking Muslim shaikhs and Grand Mufti of Egypt, Ali Goma'a, said, "This is not just an attack on Copts, this is an attack on me and you and all Egyptians, on Egypt and its history and its symbols, by terrorists who know no God, no patriotism, and no humanity."

    Sumbul Ali-Karamali: Egyptian Muslims And Christians Rising Up Together Sumbul Ali-Karamali 2011

  • After the bombing, one of Egypt's highest-ranking Muslim shaikhs and Grand Mufti of Egypt, Ali Goma'a, said, "This is not just an attack on Copts, this is an attack on me and you and all Egyptians, on Egypt and its history and its symbols, by terrorists who know no God, no patriotism, and no humanity."

    Sumbul Ali-Karamali: Egyptian Muslims And Christians Rising Up Together Sumbul Ali-Karamali 2011

  • I searched that area fairly thoroughly but though I had an excellent entree through one of the shaikhs who still kept falcons and had once had Salukis I did not find a single hound.

    Archive 2006-01-01 2006

  • The shaikhs lost their land rights and with it their power of patronage.

    More Sporting Notes/ Doom & Gloom 2006

  • I searched that area fairly thoroughly but though I had an excellent entree through one of the shaikhs who still kept falcons and had once had Salukis I did not find a single hound.

    More Sporting Notes/ Doom & Gloom 2006

  • The shaikhs lost their land rights and with it their power of patronage.

    Archive 2006-01-01 2006

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