Citations:manticratic

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English citations of manticratic

  • 1935, T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Wordsworth Editions, published 1997, →ISBN, pages 31-32:
    The prophet's family had held temporal rule in Mecca for the last nine hundred years, and counted some two thousand persons. The old Ottoman government regarded this clan of manticratic peers with a mixture of reverence and distrust.