Вы не ту "вики" читаете. Он был именно шейк. Читайте на английскомhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Digby Medjuel was a sheik of the Mezrab section of the Sba'a, a sub-tribe in Syria of the great Anizzah tribe.[8] He was 20 years her junior.Ну и далееShe spent the rest of her life in the city, where she befriended Sir Richard Burton and Lady Burton – Isabel Burton – while the former was serving as the British consul, and Abd al-Kader al-Jazairi, the exiled leader of the Algerian revolution. Очень неординарная личность.