Abstract
During a televised interview with the London-based Mid- dle East Broadcast Corporation, Yemeni president 'Ali ¯ 'Abd Allah S.alih . rational- ized his plans for his son Ah . mad's succession by claiming that another republic, the United States, had provided the example: George W. had inherited his position from his father, former president George Bush. President S.alih . was then asked whether he was aware of the U.S. electoral process by which President Bill Clin- ton had succeeded the elder Bush and then won a second four-year term. S.alih . laughed and said that Clinton was a muh . allil, or legal facilitator. According to Islamic law, or shari, for a divorced woman to remarry her ex-husband, she must first marry a muh .allil, an interim husband who makes possible the return of the actual one. In this view, the Clinton presidency amounted to a mere formality, enabling junior's succession and putting the Bush family back in the White House (MBC interview, February 2001 (facsimile transcript); 'AliMuh . sin H. amid, pri- vate communication). As analogies go, the comment was rather weak, casting
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