Middle East and North Africa
- Morocco - Zidan Abu Maali King of Morocco (1603–1627)
- Oman - Abdulla bin Muhammad Imam of Oman (1560–1624)
- Safavid Empire - Abbas I Shah of Iran (1587–1629)
- Yemen - Al-Mu'ayyad Muhammad, Imam of Yemen (1620–1644)
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“The blood of Abraham, God’s father of the chosen, still flows in the veins of Arab, Jew, and Christian, and too much of it has been spilled in grasping for the inheritance of the revered patriarch in the Middle East. The spilled blood in the Holy Land still cries out to God—an anguished cry for peace.”
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