"Effendi" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Senor Don Santiago Federico San Roman of Sevilla, but had no issue. He spent many years in the East, having been first attache at Constantinople and Secretary of Legation at Athens. He embraced the Mahometan religion and was buried by its rites privately by Ridjag Effendi, Imaum of the ...
— History of the Philippine Islands Vols 1 and 2 • Antonio de Morga
... He was Vice-Consul. He died before I was born. Then his friend Hamdi Effendi took my mother and married ...
— The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne • William J. Locke
... once did know a Turkish man Whom I upon a two-pair-back met, His name it was Effendi Khan Backsheesh Pasha ...
— Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs • W. S. Gilbert
... the outstanding nation in the conflict, not Christian, was chosen ruler and took the Osman sword on May 10, 1909, and was designated Mohammed V. His name is Mohammed Reshad Effendi, and he succeeded Abd-ul-Hamid, who was deposed. The latter became Sultan in 1876, succeeding Abd-ul-Aziz, who was preceded ...
— Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights • Kelly Miller
... and the kavass and the coachman opened the front, so that Patoff might get a better view of the streets. The kavass mounted the box, and explained to the coachman that they must search Stamboul as far as possible for the lost Effendi. But the coachman turned sharply round on his ...
— Paul Patoff • F. Marion Crawford
... came down from Lebanon, I saw strange men from lands afar, In mosque and square and gay bazar, The Magi that the Moslem shun, And grave Effendi from Stamboul, Who sherbet sipped in corners cool; And, from the balconies o'errun With roses, gleamed the eyes of those Who dwell in still seraglios, As I came down ...
— The Little Book of Modern Verse • Jessie B. Rittenhouse
... of the troops, endeavouring rather to wear out the garrison by an endless succession of petty alarms, than to carry the place at once by assault. The murmurs of the soldiers, who even refused to remain in the trenches, were with difficulty quieted by the exhortations of Wani-Effendi, a celebrated Moslem divine, who had accompanied the army in order to share in the merit of the holy war—while the remonstrances of the pashas and generals were silenced by the exhibition of the sultan's khatt-shereef, ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 • Various
... October of this year, the First Consul received in public audience Haled-Effendi, the ambassador of the ...
— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton
... no objection to the introduction of the Arab workmen. Accordingly, one day we received a visit from an excellent Egyptian officer, Edim Bey, accompanied by his secretary Rushdi Effendi, who spoke English fluently. He thus made our interview with the Bey easy and agreeable. He conveyed to us, in the most courteous manner, the wishes of the Pasha; and the three workmen were at once received. Every opportunity was given ...
— James Nasmyth's Autobiography • James Nasmyth
... Universal Church, that the Greeks look up to the Turkish authorities as arbiters in ecclesiastical matters. When there was a dispute between Greeks and Armenians respecting the mixture of water with the wine in the chalice, the question was referred for decision to the proper quarter, and the Reis Effendi decided that, wine being condemned by the Koran, water alone might be used. Yet to this pusillanimous and degenerate Church belong the future of European Turkey, and the inheritance of the sinking ...
— The History of Freedom • John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
... le bruit que l'Europe a fait, une scne semblable celle de l'Armnien ne se renouvellera point. Les mesures que le Gouvernement se propose de prendre ont pour but d'viter un jugement; et sans jugement on ne peut condamner personne mort. L'Armnien avait t jug au Mehkem dit du Stambol Effendi, avant d'tre envoy la Porte. Le Kiatib qui est en prison pour avoir dit des injures contre Mahomet, a t jug au Mehkem de Salonique, avant d'tre envoy Constantinople; et le Conseil suprme l'a dclar digne de mort, quoiqu'il ...
— Correspondence Relating to Executions in Turkey for Apostacy from Islamism • Various
... were on their side: the Sheik-ul-Islam, the chief of the Ulemas, who interpret Mohammedan theology and law, now gave sentence that the Sultan might be dethroned for mis-government; and this was done without the least show of resistance. His nephew, Murad Effendi, was at once proclaimed Sultan as Murad V.; a few days later the dethroned Sultan was secretly murdered, though possibly his death may have ...
— The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) • John Holland Rose |
