Noun:

అరబ్ కాస్ట్, షేక్,

sheikhs's Usage Examples:

Other families who are nowadays addressed or known as "sheikhs" were not traditionally rulers of provinces, but instead they were high-ranking.

The khirqa initiates an aspirant into the silsilah, the chain or lineage of sheikhs.

To the mosque belong a shadirvan, a zawiya, a harem, an imaret, a mausoleum of Mevlevi Order sheikhs and two caravanserais.

The transition was held at the village of Barouk, where the Shihabi emirs, Druze sheikhs and religious leaders met.

Hadrami was ruled by sheikhs who bore the title Shaykh al-Mashyakha al-Hadramiyya.

Yesterday"s Shylocks resemble today"s hook-nosed sheikhs, arousing.

khirqa initiates an aspirant into the silsilah, the chain or lineage of sheikhs that goes back to the Islamic prophet, Muhammad.

death in 1720, his descendants formed the Muradi family of scholars and sheikhs who continued to head the Muradiyya.

Although they gave him no support, three of the sheikhs were executed by the French as accessories-before-the-fact.

to step down by the Druze sheikhs.

The khirqa initiates an aspirant into the silsilah, the chain or lineage of sheikhs that goes.

Abu'l Hasan said:Thus he left Tunisia accompanied by Al-Mursi Abu'l-'Abbas, his brother Abdullah, his servant Abu al-'Azayim as well as other Sufi sheikhs and many of his own disciples, and moved to Alexandria, where he established both his residence and the institution (zawiyah) of his order in the tower the sultan had given him.

AssassinationOn 14 June, Kléber was assassinated by Suleiman al-Halabi, and was said to have been incited to the deed by a Janissary refugee at Jerusalem, who had brought letters to the sheikhs of the Azhar.

Synonyms:

Arab chief, swayer, tribal sheikh, sheik, ruler, tribal sheik,

Antonyms:

woman,