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The leader of an Arab village, family or small tribe.

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An Islamic religious cleric; the leader of an Islamic religious order.

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(some Arab Gulf countries) An official title for members of the royal family as well as some prominent families.

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(1920s) A romantic lover. (from the 1921 film The Sheik)

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An Arab, especially one dressed in traditional clothing.

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An honorific for specialists in spirituality.

Examples of shaikh in a Sentence

The Kamal Maula is an enclosure containing four tombs, the most notable being that of Shaikh Kamal Maulvi (Kamal-ud-din), a follower of the famous 13th-century Mussulman saint Nizam-ud-din Auliya.'

Their sacred book is called Al-Yalvah, and its chief exponent was Shaikh Adi (c. 1200).

It contains the tomb of a Mahommedan saint, Shaikh Saddu, and has been for many centuries a Mahommedan centre.

Among the nomads a different system of titles prevails, the chiefs who are responsible for the taxes and the orderly conduct of their tribes and clans being known as ilklzani, ilbegi (both meaning tribe-lord, but the latter being considered an inferior title to the former), khan, rais, amir, mir, shaikh, tushmal, &c.

The ablest of Karirns officers, Shaikh All, was sent in pursuit of the Kajar chref.

Inside the city are the famous sepulchres and shrines of Shaikh Safi ud-din and his descendant Shah Ismail I.

Since the beginning of the 16th century, when Persia fell under the sway of the Safavis, the place has been much frequented by pilgrims who come to pay their devotions at the shrine of Shaikh Safi.

His first successor in the rectorship of the Maulawi fraternity was Husam-uddin himself, after whose death in 1284 Jalal-uddin's younger and only surviving son, Shaikh Bahaudd-In Ahmed, commonly called Sultan Walad, and favourably known as author of the mystical mathnawi Rababnama, or the Book of the Guitar (died 1312), was duly installed as grand-master of the order.

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