For this the easiest way at present, and there is no safer channel you can find, is to submit your correspondence to the true and trusty man who carries this letter and that of Sheykh Mohammed Zafir.
I have got the man who supplies the pilgrims with camels on my side, too, and as I have promised my big Sheykh L500 for himself, he will do anything for me.
I knew also thatSheykh Mohammed Abdu and the rest of my Azhar friends were for other methods than those of violence, and that the reforms they had so long been preaching would in their opinion take a lifetime to achieve.
Sheykh Jemal-ed-Din joined one, but he soon found out that there was nothing of any value in it and withdrew.
My successor at the school was Sheykh Hassan the blind.
A Fewta will in a few days be issued by the Sheykh el Islam to prove that the abolition of slavery is according to the spirit of the Koran, to Mohammedan tradition, and to Mohammedan dogma.
The Sheykh el Islam has rejoined, Sultan Pasha has not.
The sheykh replied, Know, O Emeer, that this route is difficult, far extending, with few tracks.
And the sheykh said, Are there in this place any of the 'Efreets confined in bottles of brass from the time of Suleymán, on whom be peace?
Then he looked, and lo, there was a sheykh who appeared to be the oldest of them, and he was upon a high wooden bench among the dead men.
Upon this, the sheykh exclaimed, God is most great!
Sheykh Yussuf chimed in and gave a decided opinion that a creature able to understand the sight of the knife and to act so, was not lawful to kill for food.
Next day was the great dinner given by Mohammed and Mustapha outside Mohammed's house opposite Sheykh Gibreel's tomb--200 men ate at his gate.
The moment the horse had passed the men sprang up, and followed the Sheykh over the bodies of the others.
So I sent up my Reis to the Sheykh to inform him that if my man did not return by next day at daybreak, I would send for an European painter and force the Sheykh to pay the bill.
Ramadan is a great trouble to me, though Sheykh Yussuf tells the people not to fast, if I forbid it: but many are ill from having begun it, and one fine old man of about fifty- five died of apoplexy on the fourth night.
So the Sheykh el-Beled put him on a donkey and sent him and his little boy, and laid him in Sheykh Hassan's house.
I had to interrupt my lessons from illness, but Sheykh Yussuf came again last night.
I now know all about Sheykh Seleem, and why he sits naked on the river bank; from very high authority--a great Sheykh to whom it has been revealed.
Sheykh Abdallah none but an eyewitness could believe.
Husein Abu Ridhwan was the only remaining sheykh in 1870, Mansur Ibn Gormah also having recently died.
The tomb of Nebi Saleh is located in the present Wadi Sheykh near the Gebel Musa, and is the site of the great annual encampment of the Arabs of southern Sinai.
They encircled it three times to the sound of chanting, whereupon the sheykh who acted as leader, made a thrust at the beast’s neck, and all of them hastily drank of the blood that gushed forth.
The tomb of Nebi Saleh lies in the Wadi Sheykh at a distance of a few miles from the convent.
Tribes from all parts of the peninsula, including women and children, assembled in the Wadi Sheykh near the insignificant-looking tomb which consisted of a domed chamber cemented over, with an empty coffin standing inside.
Palmer left Jaffa as Abdallah Effendi, and crossed the peninsula to Suez, being conducted by Hamdan, the head man of the Tiyaha, and on his way met the great sheykh of the Heiwatt.
Lawrence, who urged him to advance and persuaded Auda Ibn Tayyi, the great sheykh of the Howeitat, to act in concert with him.
The tomb of Saleh in the Wadi Sheykhwas noticed by Bishop Pococke in 1726 (i.
The name of the sheykhwas Ammanus, which is the Latinised equivalent of Amu-anshi.
He was taken, instead, by his sheykh to the inscribed ruins of Serabit.
There was Abba Moses of Pharan, who had the power of exorcising demons, and who had cured Obedianus, a sheykh of the Ishmaelites, which led to many conversions.
It was in vain thatSheykh Ode Ismaileh of the Aleyat, and Umdakhl, a minor sheykh, advised him not to go.
Then, led by the sheykh Obedianus, they brought costly garments, in which, with the help of Psoes and Andrew they buried the saints.
In Burckhardt’s days Harun Ibn Amer, sheykhof the Saidi, was accounted one of the most powerful sheykhs of the Towarah (p.
So thesheykh brought him some sweet and cold water: but Noor-ed-Deen said, This is not the beverage I desire.
Noor-ed-Deen and the sheykh Ibraheem and the damsel, and the sheykh Ibraheem had the cup in his hand.
The sheykh Ibraheem was sitting on a chair: the Khaleefeh paused to see the result: and the sheykh was astounded, and began to bite the ends of his fingers through his confusion, saying, Am I asleep or awake?
In the old translation, the sheykh is described as preparing to slaughter the cow with a mallet.
And when the sheykh Ibraheem heard her words, he rose upon his feet.
This sheykh saluted the merchant, wishing him a long life, and said to him, What is the reason of thy sitting alone in this place, seeing that it is a resort of the Jinn?
Among other calculations of the same kind is the following, which mysheykh has mentioned in a marginal note on this passage, in the copy from which I translate.
Marginal note, in my copy of the original, by the sheykh Mo[h.
The superintendent of the gardens was a sheykh advanced in age; and I said to him, O sheykh, to whom doth this garden belong?
News had just come from El-Homeydi ibn Meshur, a Roala sheykh of the faction opposed to Sotamm, that a battle was fought about a month ago between the Roala and the Welled Ali, and that Sotamm has been worsted.
Beneyeh ibn Heneyfi ibn Shaalan is the Sheykhof a large section of the Roala, the very one we heard of last year as having stayed in Nejd.
Jeruan she despised, though he was Sheykh of Kâf; and she wanted to marry the Sheykh of Tudmur herself.
The Sheykh was very much “en cérémonie,” and we found it difficult to carry on conversation with him.
He is now dignified by them with the title of Emir or prince, and though still their Sheykh to the Bedouins, becomes king of all the towns which pay him tribute.
The tribute which he extracted from the towns, he spent liberally in the desert, exercising boundless hospitality to every sheykh who might chance to visit him.
Daughter of Faria-el-Meziad, Sheykh of the Mesenneh.
This was a simple plan enough, and one which any Bedouin Sheykh might have devised; but Abdallah’s merit consists in the method of its application.
He was a not ill-looking youth, and when we had shewn him our letter to his father informed us that the Sheykh had just arrived, so we sent him to fetch him.
The Sheykh or chief of this quarter often urged him to marry; Lane objected that he intended to live in Egypt only a year or two longer.
He, the Sheykh of the Dragomans, the respectable of respectables, made so by especial favour of the Blessed Virgin, to hear such words from one of those very English whose esteem upheld him!
The Sheykh Ibrahîm took great pains with his pupil's instruction, and taught him divers little tricks which saved much trouble.
The sheykh received him in his house; his horse was cared for.
The testimonials which he vaunted as his stock-in-trade had been given to an elderly man of dignity and pronounced decorum, not to this mouthing sheykh of the dirty raiment and the visage ploughed by dissipation.
And the young man followed the sheykh until the latter conducted him to the bath; after which he sent a man, who brought him a comely garment of linen, and he clad him with it, and went with him to his abode and his associates.
When he beheld it, he remembered how the sheykh had cautioned him, and he departed from it.
The sheykh replied, "Yes, O my son, thou hast served us until these sheykhs have been taken unto God (to whom be ascribed might and glory!
And death ceased not to take of them one after another, until there remained only the sheykh who had hired the young man.
So the young man wondered at their case, and was about to question the sheykh who had brought him, but he remembered the condition, and therefore withheld his tongue.
So the sheykh said to him, "O my son, come with us, relying on the blessing of God (whose name be exalted!
The Arab sheykh whose people cultivated it was as ready to pay tribute to the Spaniard as to the Corsair.
Another time it was a devout Moslem sheykh who begged 'Ali to give him a Christian slave to kill, as he did not feel that he had offered any sufficiently pleasing sacrifice to the prophet Mohammed.
Soon he was at Algiers, hospitably lodged and entertained, he and all his men, Turks and Jījilis alike, by Sheykh Salim and the people of the town.
This afternoon I saw Sheykh Selim, a sort of St. Simeon Stylites without the column.
Hosseyn, and leaving his vessel to take care of herself, to beseech the sheykh to get us off.
For my part I don't see much more difficulty in swallowingSheykh Selim than a stigmatised nun or a winking picture--I told him so.
Sheykh Fadl returned the amenity by throwing "some fire" at Sheykh Selim, thereby sorely burning him.
In fact he believed with the best; so, of course, I said, by all means let the Sheykh be propitiated.
Their Sheykh alone, for Seyd Abbas is not their Sheykh, claims gentility as coming from the Beni Laam, but we do not like his looks.
We reached the Salamat camp, Sheykh Abeyeh, at eight o’clock.
You,” they said to Wilfrid, “shall be our Sheykh whenever you return to us.
It is the custom here, as it is in the Sahara, that the Sheykh should receive illustrious strangers, not in his own tent, but in a special tent set up for the purpose.
There can be no question here who shall take the upper place, the Sheykh himself being always ready to take the lowest.
Mohammed’s father, Abdallah, is not the legitimateSheykh of the town, the true head of the Ibn Arûk family there being his cousin Faris.
He himself is brother to the Sheykhof Ali Ghurbi, a village on the other side of the Tigris.
In his administration he conforms, wherever he is himself the actor, strictly to the Sheriat, and on doubtful points consults always the mufti or Sheykh el Islam.
The Sheykh of the Dervishes is all powerful with his fanatical followers, and he is the Sultan's servant; a word from him would doubtless have secured the services of twenty such devotees.
Shafism has its stronghold at Cairo, where the Sheykh el Islam has always belonged to this rite, but it is also the prevailing school in Asia wherever Mohammedanism has been introduced through the instrumentality of Arabian missionaries.
The Sheykh el Islam at Constantinople may be appealed against to the Mufti at Mecca or Cairo, or these again, it may be, to Bokhara.
He combined in his person all the functions now divided between the Sheykhel Islam, the grand Mufti, and the executive authorities.
There is no such functionary in Persia as Sheykh el Islam, or Grand Mufti, and the Shah claims to be neither Imam nor Caliph.
A previous fetwa had been asked at Constantinople, but the deputation was dissatisfied, alleging that the Sheykh el Islam there could not be trusted and that they preferred the Meccan Mufti.
The Mohammedan nations have for the most part each its separate school, composed of its own Ulema and presided over by its own Grand Mufti or Sheykh el Islam, and these are independent of all external influence.
There is, moreover, a Sheykh el Islam, also elected, who decides religious questions of general importance, and a Grand Mufti appointed by the Government who gives fetwas on matters of law.
The third period is a phase of temporal inter-regnum during which for nearly three hundred years the Khalifeh exercised no sovereign rights, and resided as a spiritual chief only, or as we should now say Sheykh el Islam, at Cairo.
The place of most interest in this exciting episode is the fortified tomb of Sheykh Tabarsi, twelve or fourteen miles south of Barfurush.
The Sheykh also believed strongly in the existence of a subtle body which survives the dissolution of the palpable, material body, [Footnote: TN, p.
But they were utterly veracious Manifestations; in speaking of Allah (as the Sheykh taught) wer may venture to intend 'Ali.
It was long enough no doubt to make him a Sheykhite and to justify 'Ali Muhammad in his own eyes for raising Sheykh Ahmad and the Seyyid Kazim to the dignity of Bab.
The first was Sheykh Ahmad of Ahsa, in the province of Bahrein.
This explains how the Sheykhcan have taught that the Imams took part in creation and are agents in the government of the world.
The sheykh complied; and a month later the wonderful Frenchman, in full Oriental costume, visited the university in state, and listened to a recitation from the Koran.
The sheykh is a tall man, somewhat too portly, with amiable dark eyes, and a gleam of humor in his face.
The ancestral dwelling of the sheykh shares in its master's distinction.
The house of the Sheykhes Sadat may not leave one tranquil, for it is tantalizingly picturesque, but at least it does not inspire larceny; the presence of many servitors prevents that.
By Europeans he is called simply the Sheykh (the word means chief) es Sadat.
Then the sheykh rises, heads the procession, and, with a very slow step, they all move round the arena, bowing towards the sacred carpet as they pass it.
He used to guard the dwelling of Sheykh Ali till he transferred his pleasure to the house of Sheykh Selîm.
I explained that the Sheykh Yûsuf was a landowner, whose acquaintance we had made through my desire to buy some property.
Thus the Sheykh Yûsuf, though himself contemptible, may be of service to us.
At taking leave, the eyes of Sheykh Huseyn met mine a moment.
He ordered Sheykh Huseyn to cause refreshments to appear.
Restrained by force by two of our adherents, the sheykh spat venomously at the weeping guide, who swore by Allah that he had obeyed instructions to the letter.
I then rode over to the house again, and with Rashîd planned out the changes we desired to make, the Sheykh Huseyn following us about gloomily, and his cheerful son bestowing on us his advice in broken French.
He bade me tell the sheykh he was a liar, and that the country was as bare of tigers as his soul of truth.
It is the triumph of our enemy, that Sheykh Huseyn,' he told me.
Of Sheykh Jemal-ed-Din, whom he had known here, he said he was too much of a socialist and firebrand to carry through a reformation.
Any Sheykh who gained notoriety in India was tracked and bullied, and if he persisted in an independent course he was sent on some charge or other to the Andaman Islands.
When I saw the Sheykh in London in the spring, he wore his Sheykh’s dress.
His type of face is distinctly Egyptian, and he might well be a village sheykh of the Delta.
A Sheykh from Yemen came next, who brought a letter of introduction from Arabi, whom he had visited in Ceylon.
But the Sheykh thinks Ali el Barad would give me one if I went to see him.
I had a letter for him from Sheykh Jemal-ed-Din, but I feared he would not come.
The most celebrated of the magicians who have gained notoriety in Egypt during the course of the last hundred years was the sheykh Ahmad Sadoomeh, who flourished somewhat more than sixty years ago.
Thou must go to thesheykh Mustafa El-Munadee and the sheykh El-Bahaee.
She confessed that a woman had taken her to the sheykh Sadoomeh, and that he had written this charm to attract to her the Bey's love.
Mekkeh with the sheykh 'Omar El-Halabee who commissioned him to purchase for him a white female slave, having such and such qualifications.
When the sheykh sat down in any place, the crowd stopped, and the people pressed to see him and his mad companions.
I will send to the Jemadar Sheykh Baban Sahib, and tell him to come to you with a few men on whom he can depend.
What induced that meddlesome old Patell, Sheykh Abdoolla, to show them the way?
Had not the astounded Mamlooks scampered off like the wind, the lightning would have revealed to them the object of their hunt, Egypt's celebrated Sheykh el-Beled, a title tantamount to the power and dignity of Caliph.
Subsequent developments proved his presentiment prophetic; in an ambush placed for his destruction, the celebratedSheykh met his death.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sheykh" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
