In Robert Ryan’s newest book, Empire of Sand, he takes us back to the Middle East during the First World War. Ryan’s main protagonist is the legendary Thomas Edward Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of Arabia. The main focus of the story centers around the year 1915, before the Arab Revolt of 1916 and Lawrence’s [...]
Innlegg merkte med ‘Sharif Hussein’
As the bird flies so it falls!
Posta: Fredag, 12 september, 2008 under YmseMerkelappar:1920s, Arab Committee of the Pan-Islamic Society, Arabs, Christianity, Crusade, England, English, France, Hejaz, Ibn Saud, Iraq, Islam, Jews, Mesopotamia, Muslims, Nejd, Palestine, Sharif Hussein
So will it be with the English! The following text is a memorandum translated from Arabic describing the “wicked ways” of the English. It was issued by the Arab Committee of the Pan-Islamic Society and distributed secretly. It was written in a pocket book belonging to a member of a deputation from Emir Faisal in [...]
A Growing Power in Arabia
Posta: Onsdag, 16 april, 2008 under YmseMerkelappar:1920s, Arabia, Britain, CE Vickery, Great Britain, Hejaz, Ibn Saud, Ikhwan, Islam, King Husain and the Kingdom of Hejaz, King of the Hejaz, Quote, Randall Baker, Sharif Hussein
In the early 1920′s the power balance in Arabia changed. Sultan Abdul Aziz ibn Saud of Nejd was expanding his realm in all directions and defeated longstanding enemies. Ibn Saud was supported to a certain degree by Great Britain, but one of his main rivals, Hussein b. Ali, Sharif of Mecca and King of the [...]
