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distributed hand-written pamphlets supporting al-Zubayri. The Imam cracked down on the protests and ordered two waves of imprisonments in
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including Zayd al-Daylami of the Sana'a appeal court and notables such as former
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Arslan soon took Numan under his wing. Arslan's interest in the Yemen went back to his attempted mediation of the Saudi-Yemen war of 1934. At the time he was shocked by the backwardness of Yemen, and persuaded the Imam to employ advisers (from the same
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school). Although the poet had no background in reform politics or anti-imamic agitation and spent his first few months in Cairo writing poetry and reading at
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469:shabab
436:shabab
313:Sana'a
280:kuttab
205:Arabic
175:Geneva
1213:Saeed
1195:Aklan
1189:Bahah
1154:Ghani
1071:Ghani
1061:Ghani
1046:Makki
860:1971
831:1965
464:ummah
348:Lahej
285:Zabid
268:Sunni
263:hakim
221:Cairo
909:List
616:ISBN
572:ISBN
305:Aden
165:Died
155:Taiz
141:Born
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732:^
702:^
654:^
631:^
525:^
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