Then he went on to cross-question me about all the other sheykhs whose names he knew.
Each town and village in Arabia was considered the property of one or other of the nomade Sheykhs in its neighbourhood, and paid him tribute in return for his protection.
I believe many of the Bedouin sheykhs of Upper Nejd have come over to him.
Wilfrid by holding his peace was able to pass with the unwary as an unconcerned friend, while Mohammed did the bargaining for cloaks, kefiyehs, and other articles suitable as presents to the Sheykhs whose acquaintance we might make.
The Ibn Alis were formerly Sheykhsof the Shammar, but were displaced by the Ibn Rashids fifty years ago.
In person he is very different from any of the Ánazeh Sheykhs we have seen, reminding one rather of the Jiburi, or other Euphrates Arabs.
The Mizrab Sheykhs nevertheless still assert superiority in point of birth, and a vestige of their old claims still exists in their titular right to the tribute of Palmyra.
His jealousy of other great Sheykhs whom we have seen is often childishly displayed.
He has got the consent of his tribe, and what is of more importance of the women of his family, to go with us to Meshhed Ali, and see what arrangements can be made with the Ánazeh Sheykhs for a migration of the Ketherin northwards.
It compelled theSheykhs of the various towns and villages to enter into what is called the Truce of the Gulf, and piracy has disappeared.
Only in Bahreyn were his arms unsuccessful, and that owing to the support given to the Bahreyn sheykhs by England.
Journeys and raids and wars are all made on camels; the Sheykhs who have horses, when going to war save them to mount at the moment of actual engagement with the enemy.
I observe, with pleasure, in this part of the country those little white-domed tombs of Sheykhs which make such a pretty feature in the landscape of Algeria.
Of the five hundred and odd sheykhs or professors, two hundred are Shafite, two hundred Malekite, one hundred Hanefite, and five Hanbalite.
The poor Sheykhs el-Beled, who had the honour of dining with the Viceroy at Minieh have each had a squeeze politely administered.
Two great Sheykhsof Bishareen and Abab'deh came here and picked me up out walking alone.
Of all the vexations none are more trying than the distinctions which have been inflicted on the unlucky Sheykhs el-Beled.
So the two Sheykhs and several men got up and went and sat with the boy till dawn, because he refused to lie down or to leave his father's corpse.
And the man answered him, "I have with me ten sheykhs in one abode, and we have no one to perform our wants.
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!
He then entered the mansion where the sheykhs had resided, and knew that they had experienced the like of that which had happened unto him, and that this was the cause of their weeping and their mourning; wherefore he excused them.
Thou hast a friend among the great sheykhs of the Drûz.
Innumerable were the sheykhs who seemed to be in money difficulties and wished to sell their land.
Palmer included (1) the Sawaliheh, who are divided into three clans or families, of which each has its sheykh, so that there are three sheykhs to each tribe.
On much the same basis, the sheykhs of Sinai under British rule, are responsible for keeping the peace, in return for which they receive a grant in money which they must call for in person at Suez.
The sheykhs in 1870 were Hasan Ibn ’Amir and Embarek ed Dheiri.
Their sheykhs were Suleiman Ibn Emdakkhal, Juma Abu Shawish, and Amdan Abu Ukri.
In a large tent erected outside forty to fifty men assembled and sat in a circle, while the first of all the sheykhs barefoot and wearing the white garment (Imam) and a white turban over his red fez, sat near the fire.
In 1870 the sheykhs of the Sawaliheh were Fatir, Kadir Ibn Simhan and Abu Farh, of whom Fatir was agyd or commander-in-chief of all the military operations undertaken by the Towarah generally.
Their chief sheykhsin 1870 were Awwad Ibn Atiyeh, Eid Ibn Suad and Suleiman Ibn Ghanaim.
In Burckhardt’s days Harun Ibn Amer, sheykh of the Saidi, was accounted one of the most powerful sheykhs of the Towarah (p.
The Jinnee listening to the Tales of the Sheykhs F.
It is implied that she visited the sheykhs (by which are here meant the devotees) to request the aid of their prayers; and gave alms for the sake (or in the name) of Ghanim in order to propitiate Providence in his favour.
The sheykhs are heads of clans; the emirs of tribes (Reuss, i.
I do not see how there can be any loss in the positive results of what is called the Higher Criticism.
All the Azhar Sheykhs except Embabeh, el Abbasi, and the Sheykh el Saadat are supporting Arabi, also Abd-el-Rahman Bahrawi.
This principle is accepted by all the chief Sheykhs of the Azhar who support the party, holding the true law of Islam to forbid religious hatred and religious disabilities.
His great prestige with the country sheykhs and the fellahin of the Delta made it easy for him to inspire these with enthusiasm for the war, and at his pleading supplies flowed in gratuitously from all sides, and also volunteers for the army.
The country Sheykhs themselves had few of them a cloak to wear.
There were several of the Azhar Sheykhs with him, among them the son of Arusi.
Like many other village sheykhs they claimed a strain of Seyyid blood in their otherwise purely fellah lineage, and had a tradition of being, on that account, somewhat superior to their rustic neighbours.
At Jerusalem I called at once upon our Consul, Moore, and obtained through him from the Pasha an order to visit the prisons, and found there the sheykhs I was in search of in an underground dungeon near the Mosque of Omar.
Those learned gentlemen in England and elsewhere who hold a contrary opinion should come here and teach us, the Sheykhsof the Azhar, the dogmas of our faith.
The sheykhs were touched--they had not designed such torments--and the bread was brought.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sheykhs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
