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Arab chief   /ˈærəb tʃif/   Listen
Arab chief

noun
1.
The leader of an Arab village or family.  Synonyms: sheik, sheikh, tribal sheik, tribal sheikh.






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"Arab chief" Quotes from Famous Books



... was certainly not followed out on the most approved principles of morality, and he is well described as resembling in his code of morals an "Arab chief." But if ever man may be excused for a predatory course of life, the chieftain, as he was now called, of the Macgregors may be pardoned for actions which, in those who had suffered less from wrong and oppression, would ...
— Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 - Volume II. • Mrs. Thomson

... mind of Abraham rose to a clear conception of the unity of God, as excluding all other divine beings. The idea of local, tribal, family gods was too deeply rooted to be at once relinquished. Abraham, as described in Genesis, is a great Arab chief, a type of patriarchal life, in which all authority is paternal. The religion of such a period is filial, and God is viewed as the protector and friend of the family or tribe. Only the family God of Abraham was the highest of all gods, the Almighty (Gen. xvii. 1), who was ...
— Ten Great Religions - An Essay in Comparative Theology • James Freeman Clarke



Words linked to "Arab chief" :   swayer, tribal sheikh, ruler, sheik



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