Sentence examples for powerful sultan from inspiring English sources

Conqueror of Egypt, the powerful sultan is known for the massacres of tens of thousands of Anatolian Alevis prior to and after his war against Iran.

International public health officials, the Organization of the Islamic Conference, and Nigeria's most powerful sultan put pressure on Kano's leaders to have the suspension lifted, and Kano's governor relented when tests of OPV conducted in independent laboratories demonstrated its purity.

In 1840, late in life, the powerful sultan of Oman, Seyyid Said bin Sultan Al Busaid, left his capital at Muscat, the port controlling the entrance to the Persian Gulf, and decamped to Zanzibar, 2,000 nautical miles away.

Ghazali was patronized by the most powerful Sultan of Baghdad and directed the highest educational institute in the Abbasid empire.

For instance, one folk tale states the Malailai Gandingan is a place known for a powerful sultan and his beautiful daughter while in another epic, Raja sa Madaya, Gandingan is the proper name of a place where hostile datus (who attempted to abduct a princess from the prince of Madaya) live.

The price to be paid later was oppression by military commanders and their units, set free to compete with each other and harry the land after the machine fell out of the grasp of powerful sultans.

Son of one of the most powerful sultans in southern Yemen during the British colonial era, Mr. Fadhli, in his mid-40's, is said by Yemeni and American officials to have met Mr. bin Laden in Saudi exile in the 1980's and to have fought under him in Afghanistan.

Must-sees include theSuleymaniye Mosque (Prof. Siddik Sami Onar Caddesi; 90-212-522-0298), built 450 yeago atopathe the city's highest hill by Istanbul's great architect Mimar Sinan to immortalize the most powerful Ottoman sultan, Suleyman the Magnificent.

Amalric turned towards Egypt because Muslim territory to the east of Jerusalem had fallen under the control of the powerful Zengid sultan Nur ad-Din.

The powerful Marinid sultan Abu al-Hasan was severely defeated by the Christian kings at the Battle of Río Salado in 1340.

The Arab Spring was a revolt against some of the world's most powerful neo-sultans; it is no accident that most of the remaining Middle Eastern dictatorships are ruled by dynastic monarchs, not strongmen.