What is "sheikdom"

Usage examples of "sheikdom".

Prince came next - his small sheikdom had never rated and never had had a king.

Arab tribe, and their rising to Sheikdom and to such power that they were signatories to a treaty with the Republic.

Malaurak was a patch of sand, a tiny sheikdom in the Arabian peninsula ruled by Abu-Tahir.

Much later, in The Network days, oil had been found in the sheikdom, and at once came an attempt to overthrow Abu-Tahir.

Also, as Khaki was an Arab from one of those sheikdoms that Washington was always trying to reach on the sly, he had certain built-in protections that came when the government concluded back-channel negotiations with politically unpopular people.

Saudi Arabia, and all the Gulf sheikdoms, the gentle Ottoman authoritarian tradition is very much in evidence today.

Then somebody told him about a job on offer from one of the oil sheikdoms, running a small specialised hospital.

He sat in the lobby reading, watching the dinner-hour traffic pass in tuxes, cocktail gowns, and the formal wear of various desert sheikdoms.

They were entrenched in Egypt as well as in half a dozen sheikdoms on the Arabian Peninsula, and they were anxious to gain the favor of world Jewry in order to further their own aspirations.

The protectorates along the Arabian Peninsula consisted of a complex of large and small Arab kingdoms, sheikdoms and Bedouin tribes which skirted the shores from the Red Sea along the Gulf of Aden on through to the Arabian Sea and Persian Gulf.