Abdullah : Emir in Sri Aurobindo’s Khālid of the Sea, refers perhaps to the historical Abdullah ibn Ali, uncle of Caliph Al Mansur, who vied for the Abbasside Caliphate. Al Mansur defeated him with the help of Abu Muslim of Khorasan.
... am Ruler of the State and I have life to defend my country. I am also to inform your Excellency's Government that it is my intention at once to set up an interim Government and ask Sheikh Abdullah to carry the responsibilities in this emergency with my Prime Minister. If my State has to be saved, immediate assistance must be available at Srinagar. Mr. Menon is fully aware of the situation... in 'World Politics, No 3, April 1949, of 'the tenacious resistance against Jinnah and Pakistan by Kashmir's largest political party, the Kashmir National Conference, which was Muslim led (by Sheikh Abdullah) and largely Muslim supported.' Pakistan's strategy was, therefore, to avoid plebiscite till it manipulated the demography of the region. This would be done over ten, twenty, thirty, fifty, years... memorandum is one of the countless expressions of solidarity of the Muslim community to the interests of India, and has been in consonance with the rich, secular traditions of modern India. Sheikh Abdullah and Maulana Azad were not the only Muslims who understood the fact that India was not automatically a 'Hindu state in imbalance' just because Jinnah had declared Pakistan to be a Muslim State. ...
... All India has drawn its own conclusions from these singular occurrences, for indeed, the conclusions are not difficult to draw. But the crowning scandal of all was the treatment of the witness Abdullah. It is possible that seditious speeches were delivered by the accused, but it is certain that the amazing literal unanimity of the witnesses has created, rightly or wrongly, an impression that their... evidence; immediately the judge complies with this amazing demand; immediately the unfortunate witness is hustled out of court into the grip of the police. It is not surprising that the miserable Abdullah should recant his recantation and balance his charge against the police by a charge against the leading pleader for the defence. And this too is British law and British justice. Nay, it is the climax ...
... ABDULLAH What, a bargain, broker? MUAZZIM Not much, not much; the owner'll have some profit. AZIZ The Vizier! Enter Ibn Sawy. ABDULLAH Noble Alfazzal! There will be Good sales today in the market, since his feet Have trod here. MERCHANTS Welcome, welcome, noble Vizier. IBN SAWY The peace be on you all. I thank you, sirs. What, good Abdullah, all goes... oh, pardon! NUREDDENE ( throwing him away ) Live then, in thy gutter. Exit with Anice. Page 107 ABDULLAH Go, slaves, lift up your master, lead him off. Exeunt Slaves with Almuene. He is well punished. AZIZ What will come of this? ABDULLAH No good to Nureddene. Let's go and warn him; He's bold and proud, may think to face it out, Which were mere waiting... Bassora. FAREED - his son. SALAR - confidant of Alzayni. MURAD - a Turk, Captain of Police in Bassora. AJEBE - nephew of Almuene. SUNJAR - a Chamberlain of the Palace in Bassora. AZIZ, ABDULLAH - Merchants of Bassora. MUAZZIM - a broker. AZEEM - steward of Alfazzal. HARKOOS - an Ethiopian eunuch in Ibn Sawy's household. KAREEM - a fisherman of Bagdad. SLAVES, SOLDIERS, EX ...
... stern extraction. Yet what brighter grew About his formidable name accursed Was a white fire of riches and the thirst Of poor men gazing with a bitter stealth On that impossibility of wealth. "Abdullah the Emir," so men would say Drawing their rags about them, "has display Of gold and silver and the sunlight fades At noon in his wide treasury and the shades Of midnight are more luminous there... camels heave across the endless sands. Through Balkh when to Caboul or Candahar The wains go groaning or the evening star Watches the pomp of the wide caravan Intend to provinces Arabian, Half is Abdullah the Emir's: and he Gets spices of the south and porphyry: His are the Chinese silks, the Indian work Saved hardly from the horsehooves of the Turk: From Balsora the ships that o'er the bar Reel... one sweet maiden joy untold. Daughter of Noureddin the Barmecide Was she who bore this brightness, but when died Jaafar and all his house fell like a tower Loosened in the mutation of an hour, Abdullah found his foe an outlawed man, Page 161 Proscribed, a heretic and Persian And slew him with the sword juridical Between his golden house and Allah's wall. Page 162 ...
... to take objection. For instance, why suggest a slur on the whole Mohammedan population of Kashmir by speaking of "fanatic spell of the name of Allah"? This cannot apply to the Kashmiris who follow Abdullah and who are in a large majority, they are for his idea of a secular state. The others in Gilgit and elsewhere are not actuated by religious fanaticism but by political motives. The rest of the sentence... democratic will of the Kashmir people and their right of self-determination of their own destiny. At the same time they are trying to avoid a clash if it is at all possible. One thing which both Abdullah and the India Government want to avoid and have decided to resist by all possible means Page 518 is a partition of Kashmir, especially with Gilgit and Northern Kashmir going to Pakistan ...
... Quraish, when a blind man named Abdullah, not knowing that someone was with the Prophet, suddenly interrupted the conversation and asked to hear some verses from the Koran. Mohammed spoke to him very roughly and ordered him to be silent. But afterwards he felt sorry that he had been so harsh and very humbly apologised for it. And from that time he treated Abdullah with great respect and even conferred ...
... But in the regulations-driven English army they had little place and were seen as troublemakers. Sighted in Vellore since 1805, they acted as agent provocateurs. Under the leadership of Abdullah Khan and Peerzada, former associates of Tipu, the fakirs staged puppet shows in Vellore lampooning the English and proclaiming their impending doom. Mocking the Hindus and Muslims in the army for ...
... accession papers and we flew back in the Page 198 Dakota late at night. There were no night facilities, and the people who were helping us to fly back, to light the airfield, were Sheikh Abdullah, Kasimsahib, Sadiqsahib, Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed, D P Dhar with pine torches, and we flew back to Delhi. I can't remember the exact time. It must have been 3 o'clock or 4 o'clock in the morning. ...
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