Crossword-Solution: IMAUM 5 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Some of these pearls were larger than a pigeon’s egg, and were worth as much, and more than that which the traveller Tavernier sold to the Shah of Persia for three millions, and surpassed the one in the possession of the Imaum of Muscat, which I had believed to be unrivalled in the world.

Ahmed, the author of the work, lived during the reign of Bajazet II., but, he says, derived much information from the book of Scheik Jachshi, the son of Elias, who was Imaum to Sultan Orchan, (the second Ottoman king) and who related, from the lips of his father, the circumstances of the earliest Ottoman history.

The next day, after the Imaum of the Accursed had called them to prayer, they departed, and Allah-u-Din, paying thanks to the Rana for honours given and taken, and swearing friendship, besought him to ride to his camp, to see the marvels of gold and steel armor brought down from the passes, swearing also safe-conduct.

One morning he sent for them, and, except for the presence of prince Hassan, the most favourite of his emirs, and a famous imaum, or priest of his religion, received them alone.

The imaum here will instruct you in the truth.” Thus he spoke, but Godwin only stared at him with eyes set wide in wonderment, and answered: “Sire, I thank you, but I cannot change my faith to win a woman, however dearly I may love her.” “So I thought,” said Saladin with a sigh, “though indeed it is sad that superstition should thus blind so brave and good a man.