From its earliest days, the King David Hotel hosted royalty: the dowager empress of Persia, queen mother Nazli of Egypt and King Abdullah I of Jordan stayed at the hotel, and three heads of state forced to flee their countries took up residence there: King Alfonso XIII of Spain, forced to abdicate in 1931, Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, driven out by the Italians in 1936, and King George II of Greece who set up his government in exile at the hotel after the Nazi occupation of his country in 1942.

Shea went on to write historical action novels, including Shike ( 1981 ), a two-volume novel set in Ancient Japan about the warrior monk Jebu and his love Lady Shima Taniko, All Things Are Lights ( 1986 ), and The Saracen, a novel published in two volumes in 1989 depicting the struggle between a blond Muslim warrior called Daoud ibn Abdullah and his French crusader adversary Simon de Gobignon.

On September 26, 2001, he appeared on The O ' Reilly Factor talk show, and Bill O ' Reilly asked him about his connections to PIJ head Ramadan Abdullah Shallah and to Tarik Hamdi, a former manager of WISE who was linked to al-Qaeda during the trial of four men convicted in the 1998 bombings of U. S. embassies in East Africa, and who set up an interview for Osama bin Laden with ABC.

Following rumors that King Abdullah I of Transjordan was reopening the bilateral negotiations with Israel that he had previously conducted clandestinely with the Jewish Agency, the Arab League — led by Egypt — decided to set up the All-Palestine Government in Gaza on 8 September 1948, under the nominal leadership of al-Husseini.

* In 2010, HM King Abdullah II addressed the 65th UN General Assembly and proposed the idea for a ‘ World Interfaith Harmony Week ’ to further broaden his goals of faith-driven world harmony by extending his call beyond the Muslim and Christian community to include people of all beliefs, those with no set religious beliefs as well.

Its first director is Mohammed Abdullah al-Shahwani and is has been funded from secret funds set aside within the Iraq appropriation approved by the US Congress.

Here McGregor was exposed to a different set of influences, during the day Bela Bartok and Arnold Schoenberg, and at night recordings of Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk, and the live music of local jazz musicians like Dollar Brand ( now Abdullah Ibrahim ), Cecil Barnard ( now Hotep Idris Galeta ), Christopher Columbus Ngcukana, Vincent Kolbe, " Cup-and-Saucers " Nkanuka, Monty Weber, the Schilder brothers, and many others who were active in the vibrant Cape jazz scene at that time, the middle 1950s.

Leaving a young Red Army soldier, Petrukha, to assist Sukhov with the task, Rakhimov and his cavalry unit set out to pursue fleeing Abdullah.

Starting with Zuhr ( noon day ) lectures on the veranda of that mosque in 1971, Abdullah Sungkar together with five companions agreed to set up the Al Mukmin ( the believer, the faithful ) boarding school better known as Pondok Ngruki ( Ngruki being the suburb of its location in the city of Solo ).

Abdullah Sungkar even had time to set up an Islamic boarding school named ‘ Ma ’ had tarbiyah Islamiyah Lukman Al Hakim ’ in Johor, Malaysia.

The construction of the new scenic bridge on Malaysian side officially began on 10 March 2006, when the piling works of this bridge was completed, but on 12 April 2006, construction was halted and scrapped by Mahathir's successor, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, with growing complications in both negotiation ( the conditions set by Singapore were strongly opposed by the people of Malaysia on grounds of national sovereignty ) and legal matters with Singapore.

Little is known about its origin, although its construction is ascribed to Sheikh Abdullah Yamani of Yemen, the spiritual mentor of early Shaybanids.

On 8 May 2002, José Padilla, also known as Abdullah al-Muhajir, was arrested by FBI agents at Chicago's O ' Hare International Airport and held as material witness on the warrant issued in New York State about the 2001 9 / 11 attacks.

Abdullah maintained contact with the British throughout the First World War and in 1915 encouraged his father to enter into correspondence with Sir Henry McMahon, British high commissioner in Egypt, about Arab independence from Turkish rule.

He also argues that Morris overestimates Israel's military strength, and disagrees with Morris about the aims of King Abdullah of Jordan.

Under Abdullah, UMNO has undergone a number of crises, most notably in 2006 when Mahathir began actively confronting Abdullah about his policies, and campaigned for a position as a delegate to the national UMNO assembly so he could earn the right to speak at the floor of the assembly.

He is said to have brought about the downfall of the Jammu & Kashmir National Conference government, which was led by Farooq Abdullah, in 1984.

We shall speak about the Great Grandsheikh Abdullah Dagestani ,( Haqqani-Naqshbandi order ) and quote a small passage from his Biography written by Sheikh Hisham Kabbani :-

Grandshaykh Abdullah Dagestani's Predictions-Quoted in his book about the Biographies of the Forty Grandsheikhs of the Naqshbandi Tariqa ( " The Naqshbandi Sufi Way History and Guidebook of the Saints of the Golden Chain ") by Sheikh Hisham Kabbani :-

Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah (; born about 1963 ) is an Egyptian national wanted by the United States for his part in the 1998 American embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya.

But another claim about Iran has appeared ; the MIPT record on Abdullah reads in part

* http :// www. ramzprod. com " Ghosts: A documentary about the lives and cases of Abdullah Almalki, Ahmad Abou El Maati and Muayyed Nureddin "

Not long after, Anas spoke to Abdullah Azzam about the need to ensure Muslim help reached northern Afghanistan, and not just that of Western NGOs.

Lacking the money, Khadr asked his eldest son Abdullah to not tell his mother about Abdurahman's capture, and only insist that he was " missing ", rather than captured.

Abdullah Yusuf Azzam was born in 1941 in the Palestinian village of Silat al-Harithiya, about eight kilometers northwest of the city of Jenin in the West Bank, then administered under the British Mandate for Palestine, which covered the two sectors of Palestine and Transjordan.

In September 2007, Prince Abdullah bin Khalifa al-Thani, brother of the Emir of Qatar bought the Hôtel Lambert from the Rothschilds for the purported sum of about 80 million euros ($ 111 million ).

Bush and Maliki met in Amman, Jordan for crisis talks but a three-way dinner between the leaders and Jordan's King Abdullah was cancelled, reportedly because of a November 8 memo by National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley leaked by The New York Times expressing doubts about Maliki's ability to rein in Iraq's militias and secure the country.

Bush and Maliki met with Abdullah separately, who was concerned about Iran's growing influence in Iraq.

From Hamadan, Abdullah marched northeast to Rey, Iran, about 200 miles from Hamadan, and laid siege to the city, which surrendered after fierce resistance.

This place of ‘ hiding ’ always called upon the soul of Abdullah Sungkar to broadcast Islam, because even though he was encouraged by many people to temporarily stop preaching for the sake of his safety, he did not care about that.

In contrast to information from nations wherein jihad was underway, because of the safety factor, there was virtually no detailed information about the steps undertaken by Abdullah Sungkar in the field of jihad.

Royal Jordanian Air Force Headquarter at King Abdullah I Airbase in Amman, The task of the air force:

In November 2009, several other prisoners were transferred to a newly constructed prison building on the island, where Abdullah Ocalan is also incarcerated.

With pressure building up from forces sympathetic to Pakistan on Kashmir and with Nehru allied too closely to Shaikh Abdullah who represented only the interests of the Valley and not those of Muslims or Hindus of Jammu or the Ladakhis, Kak thought it most prudent to buy time and improve Kashmir's bargaining position.

Other slain militants included ani Bin Abdullah Al-Joaithen, a suspect in the Al-Muayya residential compound bombing in Riyadh in November 2003 ; Faisal Bin Muhammad Al-Baidhani, an explosives expert responsible for the December 2004 bombing of the Ministry of Interior building and emergency forces headquarters ; Majed Bin Muhammad Al-Masoud, Fawaz Mufdi Al-Anazi, Abdul Rahman Bin Abdullah Al-Jarboue, Nawaf Bin Naif Al-Hafi and Abdussalam Bin Suleiman Al-Khudairy.

* 1921 – Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan.

On December 1, King Abdullah announced the union of Transjordan with Arab Palestine west of the Jordan, the new state name being the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

The Jericho Conference, organized by King Abdullah and attended by over 2, 000 Palestinian delegates in 1948 proclaimed " His Majesty Abdullah as King of all Palestine " and called for " the unification of Palestine and Transjordan as a step toward full Arab unity.

* 1946 – The parliament of Transjordan makes Abdullah I of Jordan their Emir.

British Foreign Minister Anthony Eden called for Arab unity during the 1940s, and this was followed by specific proposals from pro-British leaders, including King Abdullah of Transjordan and Prime Minister Nuri al-Said of Iraq, but Egyptian proposals for a broader grouping of independent Arab states prevailed with the establishment of the League of Arab States, a regional international organization, in 1945.

* May 25 – The parliament of Transjordan makes emir Abdullah their king.

* April 11 – The Emirate of Transjordan is created, with Abdullah I as emir.

The ensuing decisions, most notably the Sykes – Picot Agreement gave birth to the French Mandate for Syria and British Mandate for Palestine, the latter of which included the territory of Transjordan which had been allocated to Abdullah I of Jordan approximately a year prior to the finalisation of the Mandate document.

Meanwhile, Abdullah of Transjordan sent the Arab Legion into the West Bank with no intention of withdrawing it following the war.

He also mentions that the Nashashibi family backed King Abdullah and union with Transjordan.

The two most significant decisions of the conference were to offer the throne of Iraq to Emir Faisal ibn Hussein ( who became Faisal I of Iraq ) and an emirate of Transjordan ( now Jordan ) to his brother Abdullah ibn Hussein ( who became Abdullah I of Jordan ).

After further discussions between Churchill and Abdullah in Jerusalem, it was mutually agreed that Transjordan was accepted into the mandatory area as an Arab province of Palestine with the proviso that it would be, initially for six months, under the nominal rule of the Emir Abdullah and that it would not form part of the Jewish national home to be established west of the River Jordan.

In May 1923 Transjordan was granted a degree of independence with Abdullah as ruler and Harry St. John Philby as chief representative.

The strategically important southern section with an outlet to the Red Sea were incorporated into Transjordan by Abdullah, the provinces of Ma ' an and Aqaba from the Kingdom of Hejaz in 1925.

The Hashemite Emir Abdullah, elder son of Britain's wartime Arab ally Sharif Hussein of Mecca, was placed on the throne of Transjordan.

The Prime Minister of Transjordan explained that Abdullah had received hundreds of petitions from Palestinian notables requesting protection upon the withdrawal of the British forces.

1930 Transjordan stamp showing King Abdullah

; 1921: Britain grants autonomy to Transjordan under Crown Prince Abdullah.

* Abdullah, later became the king of Transjordan, and whose descendants rule the kingdom, that has been known ever since as the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

When French forces captured Damascus at the Battle of Maysalun and expelled his brother Faisal, Abdullah moved his forces from Hejaz into Transjordan with a view to liberating Damascus, where his brother had been proclaimed King in 1918.

Abdullah acquiesced and was rewarded when the British created a protectorate for him, which later became a state ; Transjordan.