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... sheikh from Bagdad , who spent two days in my house in the Ansairee mountains , assured me that there were some five hundred Ansaireehs in Bagdad , and declared that there was a town in Persia exclusively inhabited by them . Before ...
... sheikh from Bagdad , who spent two days in my house in the Ansairee mountains , assured me that there were some five hundred Ansaireehs in Bagdad , and declared that there was a town in Persia exclusively inhabited by them . Before ...
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... sheikh with his relations at Diryoos . In the plain is the village of Khandok , belonging to Mohammed Ali Khadro , who lives at Ain Nab , farther to the south . He alone of the Ansaireeh remained unsubdued by Ibrahim Pasha , taking ...
... sheikh with his relations at Diryoos . In the plain is the village of Khandok , belonging to Mohammed Ali Khadro , who lives at Ain Nab , farther to the south . He alone of the Ansaireeh remained unsubdued by Ibrahim Pasha , taking ...
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... Sheikh Hhabeeb , whose family hold the highest rank as sheikhs , or religious heads , of the Ansaireeh . This village I still call Matwar , notwith- standing the strictures of the learned professor , Carl Ritter , who ( confounding it ...
... Sheikh Hhabeeb , whose family hold the highest rank as sheikhs , or religious heads , of the Ansaireeh . This village I still call Matwar , notwith- standing the strictures of the learned professor , Carl Ritter , who ( confounding it ...
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... other writers on the crusades . Here dwelt the famous sheikh , or " old man " of the mountain , whose Arab geographers and historians , such as Edrisi , Abul- name was a terror to the nurseries of olden time . The THE CASTLE OF MERKAB . 13.
... other writers on the crusades . Here dwelt the famous sheikh , or " old man " of the mountain , whose Arab geographers and historians , such as Edrisi , Abul- name was a terror to the nurseries of olden time . The THE CASTLE OF MERKAB . 13.
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... Sheikh . Zierwaih sent emis- saries into Syria , who spread his doctrine among the Arab tribes of the Benoo Kelb , among whom they made many disciples . The Benoo Kelb revolted A.D. 901 , and were defeated , the descendant of Kaddah ...
... Sheikh . Zierwaih sent emis- saries into Syria , who spread his doctrine among the Arab tribes of the Benoo Kelb , among whom they made many disciples . The Benoo Kelb revolted A.D. 901 , and were defeated , the descendant of Kaddah ...
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