Sentence examples for shaykh from inspiring English sources

Among the central figures of this movement are Shaykh Yousef Gardiī Multānī, Shaykh Ismā'īl Lahorī, Imām Ḥasan San'ānī, and Shaykh Abu'l-Ḥasan 'Alī Hujwaīrī, the philosopher-Sufi and the author of Unveiling of the Veiled (Kashf al-maḥjūb).

This included positing names with or without titles such as bin ("son of", also written as ben or ibn), abu ("father of", also written as abou), sheikh (tribal leader, also written as sheik, shaikh, shaykh, cheik and cheikh) or haji (Mecca pilgrim, also written as hajj, hajji, hadj, haaji, haajj, haajji and haadj).

While the beys continued to acknowledge the authority of the Ottoman viceroy and to send tribute to Constantinople, the strongest single figure in Egypt was the bey who held the newly coined title of shaykh al-balad ("chief of the city"), which signified that he was recognized by the other beys as their chief.

The chief pirate leader was Sulṭān ibn Ṣaqr, sheikh (Arabic: shaykh) of Al-Shāriqah (reigned 1803 66).

The exasperated shaykh expelled him from the circle of his disciples, whereupon Muḥammad Aḥmad, having vainly asked his teacher's pardon, joined the brotherhood of a rival shaykh within the same order.

Rashīd and his successor chiefs were known as the shaykh al-jabal (Arabic: "mountain chief"), which was mistranslated by the Crusaders as the "old man of the mountain".

Kafr al-Shaykh, also spelled Kafr el-Sheikh, town, capital of Kafr al-Shaykh muḥāfaẓah (governorate) of the central Nile River delta, Lower Egypt, bordering the Mediterranean.

While attending the World Economic Forum session in Sharm al-Shaykh, Egypt, Foreign Minister Ahmed Ali Abu al-Ghayt claimed that a push for democracy could lead to "antimodernity" trends, by which he meant the Muslim Brotherhood.

Renamed in 1955, after the overthrow of the monarchy (1952), it is now the governorate of Kafr al-Shaykh.

Other industries are carried on in the capital, Kafr al-Shaykh.

In more recent times, writers of the calibre of Khalil Gibran, Georges Shehade, Michel Chiha, and Hanan al-Shaykh have been widely translated and have reached an international audience.