The investiture took place in the El Rifai mosque, where the Kings and Queens of Egypt are buried. With its tapering, graceful minaret the mosque, which is regarded by Egyptians in the same way that En; lishmen regard Westminster Abbey, lies at the foot of the Citadel dominated by the huge mass of the Mohamed Ah Mosque whose two tall minarets reach even above the Mok-attain Hills in the background, In many respects the ceremony resembled that of King George VI in Westminster Abbey. Sheikh Moustafa El Maraghi, the white-bearded and venerable Rector of Al Azhar, seat of Moslem religious learning,-performed: the investiture assisted by a body of ulemas (priests).
Learned men of the East, princes, shaikhs, members of Parliament and foreign representatives were crowded together beneath thousands of hanging brass lamps.
There were no coronets, but the "aikals," the flowing white silk headdress with golden cords worn by the Arab chiefs, turbans, and red tar" benshes of the assembly presented a scene of exotic Eastern splendour.
The ceremony was very religious, Special rites were administered, and the King made solemn promises on the Koran in the form of questions and answers after which Sheikh Maraghi invested the King with the sacred jewelled sword of Mohamed Ah the Great, founder of the present Dynasty,
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