Sentence examples for sultan on from inspiring English sources

Al-Māwardī's treatise partly prepared the theoretical ground for Ṭoghrıl's attempt to establish an orthodox Muslim state in which conflict between the caliph-imam's spiritual-juridical authority on the one side and the secular power of the sultan on the other could be resolved, or at least regulated, by convention.

"Byatt is a storyteller who could keep a sultan on the edge of his throne for a thousand and one nights," Nancy Willard wrote here in 1997.

Could I live like a sultan on 565 new lira?

The sultan, on his part, protected Timur's enemies, the Kara Koyunlu ("Black Sheep") and Jalāyirid rulers.

He had seen this in a picture book somewhere: a fat sultan on a red pillow, doing much the same.

Like his brother Abdülmecid I, whom he succeeded as sultan on June 25 , 1861 Abdülaziz was an ardent admirer of the material progress in western Europe.

Mr. Obama telephoned the president of Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, and the sultan of Brunei on Thursday night to tell him he would not be coming.

Mr. Sultan, with one shoe on and the other on the floor, clung to the last bits of his life.

He embarked on an abbreviated training schedule, and on June 17 , 1985 Sultan flew on the space shuttle Discovery as part of a seven-member international crew.

Eight sultans on, the Dutch were invited to plant tobacco in the region.

By 1873 the authority of the Āl Bū Saʿīdī sultans on Zanzibar itself became complete, although there were still revolts against them on the coast particularly at Pate and Mombasa (where the Mazrui retained their preeminence despite successive defeats)—and at Kilwa, to the south.