Said the shepherd to the Cogia, 'Art thou a faquir?'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Turkish Jester or, The Pleasantries of Cogia Nasr Eddin Effendi] Reference

There was a lothely faquir salaaming in the doorway.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plain Tales from the Hills] Reference

Ibrahim the Weeper, a faquir who had recently come over the Border to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life] Reference

"Sit down, crow," said the blind faquir unkindly and there was a snigger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life] Reference

Then came a notorious faquir and mendicant, who was leader of a celebrated sect.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pacha of Many Tales] Reference

They would have dubbed him faquir and have foisted him to a pillar of holiness had he cared to let them.    From Wordnik.com.  [King of the Khyber Rifles] Reference

This individual had not spoken hitherto in the hearing of the blind faquir, and, as he did so now, the blind man turned sharply in his direction, a look of startled surprise and wonder on his face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life] Reference

Lord Beaumanoir looked on the table with desperate seriousness, an ominous pucker quivering round his lip; Mr. Melton crammed his handkerchief into his mouth with one hand, while he lighted the wrong end of a cigar with the other; one youth hung over the back of his chair pinching himself like a faquir, while another hid his countenance on the table.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coningsby] Reference

“I saw it,” says the venerable faquir, “with my own eyes; it was of a heptagonal shape, and had the following inscription in verse.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Alhambra] Reference

As a Mahommedan faquir -- as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plain Tales from the Hills] Reference

A faquir hung about.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plain Tales from the Hills] Reference

I must hear his voice again, "urged the faquir.    From Wordnik.com.  [Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life] Reference

To cite a few examples: ameer, amir, emeer, emir; cadi, kadhi, kadi, qadi, qazi; chamsinie, khamseen, khamsin; fakir, faqir, faquir; gasal, gazel, ghasel, ghazal, ghazel; hadj, haj, hajj; hegira, hejira, hijra, hijrah; kasida, qasida; kibia, kiblah, qibia, qiblah; and shaikh, shaykh, sheik, sheikh, sheykh.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 4] Reference