. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. mam. Yemen, the southern corner, was split up into a number of tribes like the central and eastern regions; while the Red Sea coast strip (the Hejaz), with the sacred territory of Mecca, under the 500 THE INHABITANTS OF ASIA. headship of the shereefs or nobles, the descendants of the Koreysh,acknowledged more or less completely the headship of the Caliph ofBagdad, and later t
. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. mam. Yemen, the southern corner, was split up into a number of tribes like the central and eastern regions; while the Red Sea coast strip (the Hejaz), with the sacred territory of Mecca, under the 500 THE INHABITANTS OF ASIA. headship of the shereefs or nobles, the descendants of the Koreysh,acknowledged more or less completely the headship of the Caliph ofBagdad, and later the Fatimite Caliphs who reigned in Egypt, and theirsuccessors in power, the Ottoman Sultans, The most important movement of modern times in which the Arabshave been concerned has been that of the Wahhabees, so named fromThe Abd-el-Wahhab (1691-1787), a great reformer, who opposedWahiiabees. i^^ invocation of saints, honouring the shrines of the dead,wearing silver and gold, using intoxicating drinks and tobacco, androused the Arabs to animosity against the Turks and other foreignerswhom he regarded as not true followers of Mahomet, Extending hisinfluence, partly by persuasion, partly by force, Abd-el-Wahhab at his. BEDOUIN FAMILY. death saw his doctrines prevailing from the Persian Grulf to Mocha andAden, Nejd had become united into one government, and the ruler tookthe titles of Imam and Sultan, Provinces soutli of Mecca and on thefrontier of Yemen having been added to the Wahhabee dominions, theShereef or governor of Mecca took alarm and obtained an army of Turksto attack the Wahhabee capital of Hasa (Hofhoof), on the Persian Gulf,Wars of which proved a futile expedition. The Wahhabees in turnconquest, ^qq]^ >^q offensive and stormed Kerbela, in the territory ofBagdad, in 1801, took Mecca in 1803, and Medina in 1804, and dictatedto the Mahometan world the terms on which alone theycould obtain access to the sacred places. In 1811 the Porteentrusted Mehemet Ali, the viceroy
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