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	Maldives Royal Family Official Website: Majid's Pages- Veiled women
		Veiled women in Turkey rarely expose any part of their bodies to sunlight, so they have low blood levels of vitamin D that increase their risk for osteoporosis.
		An attempt was made by mullahs to introduce the veil early in that century but it did not gain any significant support, though a few jealous men seized the opportunity to force their women folk into the veil.
		The veil is used as a political statement to achieve the objective of altering the character of the French Republic.
	www.maldivesroyalfamily.com /maldives_veiled_women.shtml (2968 words)

	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Veiled Prophet of Khorassan.
		The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan was Hakim ben Allah, surnamed the Veiled (Mokanna), founder of an Arabic sect in the eighth century.
		Having lost an eye, and being otherwise disfigured in battle, he wore a veil to conceal his face, but his followers said it was done to screen his dazzling brightness.
		When encompassed by Sultan Mahadi, he first poisoned all his followers at a banquet, and then threw himself into a burning acid, which wholly destroyed his body.
	www.bartleby.com /81/17089.html (150 words)

	Pulse of the Twin Cities - Locally Grown Alternative Newspaper
		Sultan describes her younger, adventurous self coming of age—and later, coming apart—as she becomes the anchor in the dangerous waters of daily family life.
		Sultan proved she can translate the complicated history of Middle Eastern politics with her first book, “Israeli and Palestinian Voices,” a collection of interviews from her 2003 journey to the Palestinian Territories and Israel.
		Sultan once shared that bitterness, but now makes a distinction between the Palestinian people and their “opportunist leadership.” As a University of Minnesota student, Sultan’s daughter was an official observer of the first Palestinian intifada in 1989, inspiring Sultan’s 2003 trip.
	www.pulsetc.com /article.php?sid=2256 (901 words)

	Christine Isom-Verhaaren \| Royal French Women in the Ottoman Sultans' Harem: The Political Uses of Fabricated Accounts ...
		While the wife or favorite of the sultan might gain power through her influence with him, the mother of the reigning sultan, the valide sultan, was the most powerful woman in the empire.
		The genealogical descent of the Ottoman sultans on the male line was well documented and not adjustable, but the opposite was true of the descent of the mothers of the sultans, and this lack of knowledge about the female ancestors could be an asset rather than a liability.
		The favorite's influence increased as she maintained firm ties to the sultan for a long period as opposed to when a concubine bore only one son and remained with her child when he was sent to the provinces to govern, preventing continuous close contact with the sultan.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/jwh/17.2/isomverhaaren.html (15065 words)

	Hazrat Sultan Bahu Rahmatullah Alaihi
		Sultan Bahu (RA) tomb is situated in a village near the banks of the river Chenub situated not far from the town of Shirkot in the district of Jung - Punjab Province.
		Sultan Bahu(RA) answered that on perceiving the states of the novice seekers, putting his hands in the water would not have quenched his spiritual thirst and aspirations.
		The Abyat of Sultan Bahu (RA) is being recited.
	www.ummah.net /Al_adaab/Sultan_Bahu.html (15097 words)

	Bluetooth is for lovers in Kuwait / Wireless becomes the mating call of choice in Muslim countries
		The clock is ticking for Sultan Juan -- that's an alias -- a 27-year-old Syrian-born wage earner betrothed to a woman from his home country.
		Sultan says he's banking on his love interest being among the latter, and, although I can't see their faces, I can understand why: Their tight-fitting silky fl head coverings extend beyond their shoulders, clinging tightly to their willowy frames.
		Sultan does not invite me to see where this flirtation takes him, but he says it follows the same pattern of his other escapades three or four times each week: It ends behind closed doors in the bedroom of an apartment he shares with his father.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/10/15/INGK7LNDTQ1.DTL (1286 words)

	Aladdin Lamp
		The Sultan told the Vizier to ask his son, who owned the truth, adding that, dearly as he loved the Princess, he had rather die than go through another such fearful night, and wished to be separated from her.
		On seeing her poverty the Sultan felt less inclined than ever to keep his word, and asked his Vizier's advice, who counseled him to set so high a value on the Princess that no man living would come up to it.
		When the sultan saw him he came down from his throne, embraced him, and led him into a hall where a feast was spread, intending to marry him to the Princess that very day.
	www.natashascafe.com /html/aladdin_lamp.html (4814 words)

	Medieval Sourcebook: Sidi Ali Reis (16th Century CE): Mirat ul Memalik ("The Mirror of Countries")
		When Sultan Suleiman had taken up his winter residence in Aleppo, I, the author of these pages, was appointed to the Admiralship of the Egyptian fleet, and received instructions to fetch back to Egypt the ships (15 galleys), which some time ago had been sent to Basrah on the Persian Gulf.
		Meanwhile Sultan Ahmed had taken the stronghold of Burudj and sent two of his officers, Ehudavend and Djihanghir, with elephants and troops to Surat, while he proceeded to Ahmedabad, where a youth, called Ahmed, a relation of Sultan Ahmed, had in the meantime raised a revolt.
		The Sultan was much pleased, and both he and his Vizier Molla Yari expressed their thanks for my intervention in a private letter, which I showed to his Majesty, who had entrusted me with the transaction.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/16CSidi1.html (16944 words)

	Flickr: Photos from Veiled Voices
		Women listen intently to the sermon at the Sultan Hussan Mosque in Cairo, Egypt.
		She may wear a face veil, however she was the most candid and open interview subject of the day.
		This mosque is segregated by sexes, however because we were an all woman crew; we had a once in a...
	www.flickr.com /photos/veiledvoices (319 words)

	Surname-i Vehbi: 26b-27a
		The sultan, seated right of center, is accompanied by his three sons, his sword-bearer and equerry, and a contingent of pages.
		Were the wind to spread the odor of the sultan's beautiful nature, hundreds of bottles of royal attar could be distilled from it.
		One pelt of pardine lynx, as white as dry camphor as fl as powdered musk or else as white as a clear conscience and as fl as the pupil of a houri's eye in Paradise.
	www.geocities.com /surnamei_vehbi/026b-027a.html (2421 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Features \| This Easter in Jerusalem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		And if you connect your name to politics in such a manner, then it's fair perhaps to expect that your fortunes will go through the same roller-coaster ride of political upheavals as that of the sovereign with whom you've come to be associated.
		In both cases, the sultan (or his modern variant) was suffering from serious weaknesses.
		This time around, however, it is the sultan's wife who is given credit for the restoration of the monastery.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2002/584/feature.htm (4957 words)

	Saudi Aramco World : The Orient of Pierre Loti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Instead, he presents Morocco as an unspoiled land, an almost-Eden still free of foreign influences, a country that is "silent, wild, inundated with light," where the ground is covered with "a carpet of flowers" and where even the wild animals don't fear him.
		Loti cites examples of the severe justice of the sultan, and doesn't hesitate to describe unattractive urban landscapes.
		In Fez, where the French ambassador presents his credentials to the sultan, Loti occupies a house far removed from the rest of the French delegation, to better taste, feel and see the city and her people.
	www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/199204/the.orient.of.pierre.loti.htm (2234 words)

	Sultan of Bagdad: Music of the Middle East Vol. 2
		Sultan of Bagdad: Music of the Middle East Vol.
		Behold the Sultan, supreme ruler of his realm, with his harem, musicians, jugglers, dancing girls, magicians, sword swallowers and acrobats.
		Supple bodies veiled in shimmering silk dance in time to music that imparts an imperishable glamour to the subtlety of this art.
	www.el-bakkar.com /bagdad.html (1102 words)

	Saudi Aramco World : Elizabeth and the Sultan's Fete (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Beneath this magnificent canopy sat the sultan in all his imperial splendor, while Elizabeth, eyes alight, began to jot down notes...
		While they were eating ices and bonbons, which were provided for "Franks" only, even though, said Elizabeth, they would have preferred Turkish dishes, someone came with an invitation for Elizabeth and her "Frankish" lady friends to visit the women's quarters.
		But in mistaken kindness, and doubtless at enormous expense and inconvenience, the Sultan's guests must be served with a French supper.
	www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/198502/elizabeth.and.the.sultan.s.fete.htm (2424 words)

	Ibn Battuta in West Africa
		Battuta witnessed the arrival in the sultan's court of a faqir from a remote district who told of a plague of locusts that purported to be a response to a great evil in the land.
		The sultan's pretext was a complaint from Banju that when the daughters of the paternal uncle of the sultan (sisters of Qasa) visited, they failed to show Banju and Qasa equal respect.
		The sultan took her side because, as he finally revealed, he had evidence that Qasa had conspired to overthrow the sultan with Kanburni, another son of a paternal uncle of the sultan.
	courses.wcupa.edu /jones/his311/lectures/17battut.htm (7729 words)

	The Five Thousand and One Nights
		There was sometimes an admonitory edge to the mesmeric flow, and he was certainly not allowed to fall asleep; he would jerk himself back to consciousness to find Scheherazade's incomparable eyes staring stonily at him over the embossed satin sheets from Harrods, while her elegant finger tapped irritably at the sleeve of his pyjamas.
		She wore the chador, and was veiled; her dark and lustrous eyes were all that the Sultan could see of her face.
		The Sultan had always found women's bosoms quite as alluring as any other part and hence had never known whether it was he who was perverted or traditional wisdom that was faulty.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/l/lively-nights.html (2422 words)

	hikamcom3
		That is which is veiled is you, who are veiled from looking at Him by your reliance on others and the attachment of your heart to physical matters.
		That is why one of the gnostics said, "Those with the greatest veils to Allah are the scholars, then the worshippers, then the ascetics since they stop with their knowledge, worship and asceticism.
		As long as he remains beyond the veil, annihilated in actions, he is in the knowledge of certainty.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/ABewley/hikamcom3.html (2968 words)

	Maldives Royal Family Official Website: Majid's Pages- Prince Maandoogey Tuttu Manippulu
		The elder prince was incapacitated from discharging the duties of sultan as his vision was almost totally impaired from a very early age due to a medical misadventure.
		When the Sultan went abroad to perform the haj, he took the elder of his younger brothers with him and Maandoogey Tuttu Manippulu assumed the powers of King-Sultan as Prince Regent.
		Subsequently when the Sultan travelled abroad to marry an Ottoman lady in Suez, the role of regent fell on the elder of his younger brothers, Maandoogey Dorhy Manippulu who obviously lacked the tact and political acumen of his younger brother Maandoogey Tuttu Manippulu.
	www.maldivesroyalfamily.com /maldives_maandhoogey_tuttumanippulhu.shtml (1336 words)

	Inside Indonesia 56 - Orphans no more
		Impatience to meet together with Sultan Hamengkubuwono X at his palace, the kraton, mixed with rumours that a large number of rioters had been brought in from outside, could be felt on campuses and in the shopping centres.
		The sultan criticised the constant calls on the people to be patient, to be obedient, polite and so on, while the regime itself deliberately smashed any feelings of shame it might have had and gave itself over to greed.
		The sultan and the kraton were their father and their mother, who were able to hear their sobs, to struggle with them, and always to urge them never to lose hope.
	www.insideindonesia.org /edit56/dwi.htm (1447 words)

	Radical Islam finds unlikely haven in liberal Britain \| csmonitor.com
		The charismatic speaker, Mohammed Sultan, the son of immigrants from India and a former student in business information technology, is a regional leader of al Muhajiroun, a radical youth movement based in Britain.
		Sultan says to the muscular young men leaning forward in their seats, and veiled women along the back wall.
		Sultan is part of a growing number of Muslim radicals who find Britain, with its liberal immigration laws and tradition of free speech, to be a comfortable base for their jihad against the West.
	www.csmonitor.com /2002/0805/p01s03-wogi.html (1001 words)

	Room with a View: Condé Nast Traveler on Concierge.com
		The amber complex would be the seat and symbol of Byzantine Orthodoxy for the next 900 years—until 1453, when Sultan Mehmet II overtook Constantinople and converted Hagia Sophia into a mosque.
		During Hagia Sophia's time as the imperial mosque, its Christian treasures were veiled (and sometimes defaced), supplanted by massive Ottoman medallions.
		Although the silence is overwhelming inside the Church of the Divine Wisdom, outside it's a different story.
	www.concierge.com /cntraveler/roomwithaview (561 words)

	All About Romance Novels - The Harem
		Although all the harem women, from the mother of the Sultan to the lowest kitchen maid were technically slaves, they were not of equal rank, and rank was guarded jealously in the harem.
		Some odalesques were given by the Sultan as wives to territorial governors, a mark of favor on his part and an honor to the odalesque.
		If the Sultan took it into his fancy to sleep with one of the women, she was prepared by spending a long period of time in the bath.
	www.likesbooks.com /harem.html (1171 words)

	WOMEN IN ISLAM VERSUS WOMEN IN THE JUDAEO-CHRISTIAN TRADITION: The myth & The reality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The fact that the veil was the sign of nobility was the reason why prostitutes were not permitted to cover their hair in the old Jewish society.
		Paul's rationale for veiling women is that the veil represents a sign of the authority of the man, who is the image and glory of God, over the woman who was created from and for man. St.
		The reason for the veil, as offered by their Church leaders, is that "The head covering is a symbol of woman's subjection to the man and to God", which is the same logic introduced by St. Paul in the New Testament.
	sultan.org /articles/women.html (16910 words)

	The New Paltz Oracle - Making New Beginnings
		A rarity in today’s world, Wafa Sultan, an Arab-American psychologist from Los Angeles, boldly shared words of wisdom with viewers of Al-Jazeera television and shed light on the current global warring situation.
		This clash, Sultan said, is not between civilizations, as civilizations do not clash, they compete.
		As Sultan said during her appearance, it is through knowledge and work that people acquire respect.
	oracle.newpaltz.edu /article.cfm?id=2455 (599 words)

	Legacy of the Sharqi Kingdom of Jaunpur \|\| Imam Reza (A.S.) Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It was a period of decline for the Tughlaqs and the violence of Timur had shattered the Delhi Sultanate in 1398.
		Close to the bridge, on the banks of Gumpti, is Karar Fort, built in 1360 by Sultan Firoz Shah Tughlaq with materials brought in from the palace and temples of the Rathore kings of Kannauj.
		Arabic inscription on the minar assigns its construction to Ibrahim Naib Barbak (brother of Sultan Firoz Shah) in 1377.
	www.imamreza.net /eng/imamreza.php?id=4339 (1797 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: The Religion of Peace? by Andrew G. Bostom
		Sultan’s critical view of Islam by further contending that the Koran's bellicose and brutal verses were mere “cultural baggage”, akin to “similar” pronouncements in the Old Testament.
		Uninformed ecumenical zeal in search of a fantasy Islam yet to be created, does not excuse making intellectual, let alone moral equivalences, between the severely limited and contextualized war proclamations of the Old Testament, and the permanent proto-jihad war injunctions of the Koran.
		Staking out the presumptive “higher” moral ground by a thinly veiled (and ahistorical!) attack on a courageous secularist seeking profound, not cosmetic (and meaningless) changes in Islamdom, is unsavory and destructive, regardless of the misguided motivations.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=23128 (1131 words)

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		Under the red flag, with white crescent and star, the Ottomans of American celebrated last night at a dinner at the Hotel Astor the fourth anniversary of the Constitution under which Turkey began her new regime after Abdul Hamid was desposed.
		Turkey was united in a desire to keep neutral, which is demonstrated by the fact that even many of Enver's friends resigned their positions as Ministers at the outbreak of the war.
		The Sultan has communicated with the Heir Apparent, who, in turn, has conferred with the Sublime Porte, asking that protest be lodged with the Entente against suppresion of news favorable to Turkey.
	www.iit.edu /~akbabul/art11-20.html (3079 words)

	Inside Indonesia 60 - The sultan will be Dr Hasan Tiro
		He ushered two veiled women - one in her forties and the other a mere teenager - into a tiny dark room at the side of the platform.
		Both women pulled off their veils and revealed scars of cuts and burns on their necks, breasts and legs.
		It felt alternately like we were being treated to a freak show with an ideological ringmaster; and that we were carrying out the vital task of listening to those whose stories desperately needed to be told.
	www.insideindonesia.org /edit60/gam1.htm (865 words)

	Jenny White, The Sultan's Seal
		The common denominator among these is each author's use of a narrative style that enables the reader to encounter multiple viewpoints on the situation and thus reach conclusions about the mystery that are not accessible to one or more of the main characters.
		The mystery at the heart of The Sultan's Seal concerns the apparent murder of a young Englishwoman, her nude body found by garbage scavengers washed up on a bank of the Bosphorus north of Istanbul.
		Six of the chapters in The Sultan's Seal are letters written by Sybil, the dutiful daughter of the British ambassador, who is present when Kamil Pasha makes his report to the ambassador about the death and first identifies the victim as an English governess working in the Sultan's court.
	www.greenmanreview.com /book/book_white_sultansseal.html (1476 words)

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