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ISLAM in Time Magazine. 1923 - 1967
May. 28, 1923
...accompany him to Lausanne, where he intends to plead the cause of Islam against the Kemalists. He has left Mecca in the Hedjaz, where he...
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Sep. 3, 1923
...is reported as having initiated a far-reaching program for the unification of Islam. Similar reports have come be- fore from greater centers than Ufa, and...
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Dec. 17, 1923
...and presents some rather acrimonious comment on Christianity in the Land of Islam. So far so good. The author goes farther afield and animadverts upon...
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Mar. 17, 1924
...the other Moslem countries would recognize King Hussein as the head of Islam. He is, however, more fitted to the Califate than most other candidates,...
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Mar. 17, 1924
...Indian leader, said last week that the Califate is the essence of Islam and will not be abandoned by Indians. Mahatma Gandhi has often expressed...
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Mar. 24, 1924
When Turkey went to war against the Allies in 1914, the most dreaded weapon in her armory was the threat of the Jehad or Holy War—power to declare which was vested in the office of the Califate. Dutifully the Calif pushed the button. Nothing much happened. The Jehad did not prevent the British Moslems and ...
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Mar. 31, 1924
...mayor. Cannot tell yet about people." *Chief of the consulting canon-lawyers in Islam, sometimes known as Lord of the Faith.
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Aug. 25, 1924
...financial burden. In 1881 occurred the rise of the Madhi, "Guide of Islam," whose policy was to evict the Egyptians. Then followed the defeat of...
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Oct. 6, 1924
...True Prophet. The day of the aristocrat had passed, the pride of Islam was quivering beneath the heel of the foreigner. But Mustaffa Madani would...
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Oct. 6, 1924
Arrival. Premier Saad Zaghlul of Egypt arrived in London to confer with Premier Ramsay MacDonald upon the Sudan dispute. At Victoria Station, he and Mme. Zaghlul were hailed with enthusiasm by Egyptian students who lustily cried: "Long live British Democracy! Egypt and the Sudan for the Egyptians! Representatives of the British Premier and Foreign Office ...
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Oct. 13, 1924
...states are moved on the backs of camels, lies the cradle of Islam, and that cradle was rocked last week by the terrible hand of...
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Oct. 20, 1924
...Mecca, craned to see Husein, abdicating King of Hejaz* and Calif of Islam (TIME, Oct. 13). It was announced that Husein would sail away—none knew...
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Oct. 27, 1924
...their heads to the ground in religious homage at the shrine of Islam. Then they sent a message to their enemies, so the despatch ran,...
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Dec. 15, 1924
As it does every four years, the brain and sinew of the Protestant communions of the U. S. came all together as the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America — this year, in Atlanta, Ga. Officers. Robert E. Speer, retiring President, opened the convention: "The last four years, in spite of doctrinal discussions, ...
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Mar. 9, 1925
...and have also proclaimed themselves as crusaders in the holy cause of Islam against the "atheist" Kemalists who now govern Turkey from her new capital,...
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Apr. 13, 1925
PALESTINE (British Mandate) In the Promised Land Balfour. On Nov. 2, 1917, Mr. Arthur James Balfour, British Foreign Secretary, issued a declaration on behalf of his Government: "His Majesty's Government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people ... it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done ...
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Jul. 6, 1925
At Middletown, N. Y., a stream overflowed, covered with water the garden of one Louis Bell so that, in the night, a 15-lb. German carp slank into his yard, began to feed upon the carrots, the asparagus. Bell rushed out, beat the carp to death with a spade. Teeth In Mexico City, one Islas Escandon, ...
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Aug. 17, 1925
A newspaper correspondent, writing from Wazzan behind the French lines, thus began his daily despatch on the Moroccan War (TIME, May 11, et seq.) : "One requires no map in order to follow operations in this important sector. One can install oneself comfortably—except for the flies, whose buzzing might be taken for Abd-el-Krim's air service ...
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Aug. 31, 1925
...the Califate* has become corrupt, incompetent—essen tial cause of the backwardness of Islam. Sheik Razek is a professor of religious jurisprudence in the famed Moslem...
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Feb. 15, 1926
...depose the Calif it had made; so there is no Primate of Islam today. 2) Religion, which once dominated Turkish courts, is now not even...
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Apr. 19, 1926
...Riffian hills. "Mulay Mohammed ben Abd-el-Krim," they shouted, brandishing their swords, "Sultan el-Islam, dj'der ba-ba Spanol!" For hours together they thus chanted their leader's name...
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May. 24, 1926
...and potent Mohammedans, who solemnly entered and squatted within the mosque of Islam's most ancient university, El Azhar The Grand Sheik of El Azhar called...
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May. 31, 1926
The potent representatives of Islam who assembled at Cairo (TIME, May 24) to select a new Calif,...
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Jun. 21, 1926
...no kingdom or sultanate save in the hearts of Moslems; is perhaps Islam's most potent spiritual lord.
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Jul. 5, 1926
...the King of Egypt had a chance of being made Calif of Islam; the rug started on its journey, accompanied by the soldiers and followed...
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Jul. 19, 1926
Prowling far into the northern Punjab, prowling further into the remote North-West Frontier Province of India, irrepressible impresarios of moviedom purchased last week at Rawalpindi, a building which they deemed suitable for a cinema theatre. The building stood adjacent to a mosque. Local Moslems took council. Were shadowy Christian pie-throwers to shuffle oversize feet, thumb ...
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Sep. 27, 1926
...men who had founded religions by giving their subconscious selves free rein. Islam. Allah, like his new servants, was nomadic and whimsical. Often as not...
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Oct. 4, 1926
...Captain René Fonck's giant Sikorsky plane (see p. 32). Twelve sons of Islam carried the 600-pound red, leaden coffin containing his body for a mile...
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Jan. 3, 1927
...otters, asses, mules, wasps and in general all insects are forbidden."—Dictionary of Islam.
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Jan. 17, 1927
...the insurgent native newspapers bear such titles as: Young Java; Light of Islam; Agreement and Disagreement; and The Revival of Islam. The two great insurgent...
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Jan. 24, 1927
The Islamic-Nationalist riots, recently suppressed in Java (TIME, Nov. 22) burst out again last week in Sumatra. Dutch troops of the Netherlandic East Indies forces arrested 550 rioters at Siloengkang, shot 100. As usual the Dutch press, ignorantly or maliciously, referred to the malcontents as "Communists." ...
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Jul. 11, 1927
...Harding, Elk and Mason, lived. Other Grottoes are called Ali Baba, Kamram, Islam, Zemzem, Omar, Gul Reazee, Kolah, Shodad, Kaa-Rhen-Vahn, Rhami Ghar, Hindoo Koosh—meaningless, perhaps,...
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Apr. 9, 1928
...between his inherited Christianity, which the crusaders' irreligion spoils for him, and Islam, which his courteous captor-hosts gently urge. After a thoroughly thrilling set-to with...
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Aug. 13, 1928
"The better class of Turks have never practiced polygamy. Public opinion in Turkey has been consistently against the harem—despite the fact that every Sultan kept one. There are fewer polygamous relationships in Turkey, today, than in any other European country. . . . "More veils are worn by the women of Paris, at present, than ...
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Nov. 5, 1928
...so doing you would merely cause unnecessary pain to pious devotees of Islam. In the present instance, I fear that you have shocked the Catholic...
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Sep. 2, 1929
Religious warfare starting in Jerusalem when Arabs attacked the sacred Jewish shrine of the Wailing Wall (TIME, Aug. 26) grew more intense last week. Hallowed to both religions is the small area marked by the ruins of King Solomon's temple. In it Mohammedans can view with pious awe a golden urn containing two hairs from ...
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Sep. 9, 1929
"Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news: Colonel Edward Rowland Robinson Green, famed invalid son of the late multimillionairess Hetty Green, received a new automobile to add to his fleet of 25. Built by General Electric Co. and Rauch & Lang Corp., it has a gasoline engine which drives a ...
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Sep. 9, 1929
The fighting that began between Jews and Arabs at Jerusalem's Wailing Wall (TIME, Aug. 26) spread last week throughout Palestine, then inflamed fierce tribesmen of the Moslem countries which face the Holy Land (see map). Sacked and burned by fleet-riding Arabs was the ancient town of Safed, for centuries a seat of mystical Jewish learning. ...
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Sep. 16, 1929
...last fortnight. Quite possible the best way to quench the strife of Islam v. Israel was to make both factions feel that further slaughter would...
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Oct. 28, 1929
Pressure Sirs: Re: FORTUNE Answering your letter of Oct. 7, I am inclosing conditional subscription to the new publication, FORTUNE, with this qualification, however, that owing to extreme pressure of business on the Court, I may not be able to make up my mind within a month after the first issue, whether I will continue ...
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Oct. 28, 1929
Publishers this week fling the following meaty biographies into the literary arena: the gorgeous Borgias, a magnificent Medici, swaggering Cyrano de Bergerac, Napoleon and his nephew, two literary Englishmen and some eminent Asians. THE INCREDIBLE BORGIAS—Klabund— Liveright ($2.50). LORENZO THE MAGNIFICENT—David Loth—Brentano ($5). Since the World War the will-to-power is represented in the two extremes ...
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Jun. 16, 1930
...Lummox, Negro, issued a call to U. S. Negroes to imitate him—embrace Islam, migrate to Anatolia where there are no race distinctions and where they...
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Sep. 22, 1930
MIRTHFUL HAVEN—Booth Tarkington—Doubleday, Doran ($2). Booth Tarkington has never been a socially weighty writer, but his early books had a kind of restless threat in them. His sympathies were evidently with the young man who rebels against the machinery of money. As Tarkington grew older his sympathy with rebels thinned, mellowed or changed into a ...
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Aug. 10, 1931
...French sergeant assembled his platoon, marched it back to barracks. Elsewhere in Islam than at Meknes, no such lavish gestures marked the observance of Mohammed's...
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Nov. 9, 1931
...a sun-drenched Riviera villa, high above champagne-soused Nice, lives the ex-Caliph of Islam who has no ...
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Nov. 23, 1931
...retinue to the villa of His Holiness the politically deposed Caliph of Islam, goat-bearded Abdul Medjid Effendi, 63, still spiritually potent. His Exalted Highness the...
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Jan. 11, 1932
...Hadica Nielufear, respectively the daughter and niece of the onetime Caliph of Islam, Prince Abdoul Medjid Effendi who mar ried them in his villa at...
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Feb. 22, 1932
To the Faithful, holiest of months is Ramadan when by command of the prophet no Mussulman may eat from dawn to sunset. Ramadan ended last week, spectacularly in three places. In Istanbul 20,000 people shuffled into the great Byzantine Mosque of Santa Sophia on Ramadan's "Night of Power" to hear the first reading of the ...
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Oct. 17, 1932
...associate itself with their "kindred elements." Christianity's chief argument is not with Islam, Hinduism or Buddhism but with "materialism, secularism, naturalism . . . the...
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Dec. 5, 1932
...life. Slump In Detroit, Negro Robert Harris, member of the Order of Islam (religious society), was arraigned on a first degree murder charge of killing...
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Jun. 26, 1933
Fifteen years ago the pale Little Father of All the Russias stood with his family in a cellar at Ekaterinburg while Lettish soldiers shot him down. Those of his followers and courtiers who could, fled the country, moving in two general directions, one through Constantinople toward Paris and the U. S., the other all the ...
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Jul. 10, 1933
Names make news. Last week these names made this news: Englewood, N. J. friends of the Lindberghs reported that their new Scotch terrier Thor, when commanded: "Go take the little dog for a walk." seizes the leash of Skene, the other Lindbergh Scottie, marches it proudly around the estate. Into the new beauty parlor she ...
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Jul. 10, 1933
Brave men and great fighters are the followers of Islam, but their religious sensibilities are tender as an aching tooth. Because the...
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Oct. 9, 1933
Bunch of Cats Sirs: In your issue of Aug. 7 you had a story about some difficulty that William Amos Smith, whom you said had three boys and seven cats, was having with his neighbors. You stated that William Amos Smith was a justice of the supreme court and a former attorney-general. This identified the ...
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Nov. 6, 1933
In every Turkish city and major town the dawn came up one day last week with the earth-shaking thunder of a 100-gun artillery salute. Three days and nights of sleepless rejoicing, songs, dancing in the streets and every sort of Turkish whoopee began by express order of the Ghazi Mustafa Kemal, blond "Victorious Mustafa the ...
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Jan. 15, 1934
...the cleavage between denominations. No Christianity can compete with Marxian Communism and Islam that has race exclusiveness at heart."
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Apr. 30, 1934
...Meantime reports grew that a Negro cult school called the University of Islam was making corresponding gains. Alarmed teachers complained to the ...
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May. 21, 1934
...Saud but his eldest son, the Emir el Hadi Mohammed Seif al Islam, suspicious and arrogant as his father but not so wise, is jealous...
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Jul. 2, 1934
(See front cover) Toothsome young lambs were slaughtered by the hundreds in Ankara last week and their fresh meat sizzled on a thousand skewers as banquet followed boisterous banquet. Champagne-loving Turkish Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha, high-strung and quick as a panther, was doing his best to honor the majestic Persian Dictator who styles himself the ...
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Oct. 8, 1934
...his favor with him. Immediately excommunicated for heresy by the doctors of Islam, Omar gave away everything he owned, trudged aimlessly off into the desert....
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Jul. 8, 1935
...modern scientific discoveries are not antagonistic with Jewish doctrine, saluted Christianity and Islam as daughter religions of Judaism. Youngest rabbi at the Pittsburgh meeting was...
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Jul. 22, 1935
Negro pastors fulminated from hundreds of U. S. pulpits last week in a vein keynoted by Rev. John King, eminent Kentucky brimstone gospeler: "Ethiopia is the land of our heritage! She is the oldest Christian nation in this world and the Lord God Jehovah can't let her down!" To Emperor Power of Trinity in Addis ...
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Jan. 6, 1936
...Boniface VIII and author of the monumental history of Mohammedanism, Annalli Dell' Islam; in Vancouver, Canada. Since much of the historic Caetani lands lay in...
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Jan. 20, 1936
...moon rode high and bright over Turkey one night last week as Islam downed its evening meal. The peasants in the little villages finished their...
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May. 25, 1936
Last week Islam moved nearer the united front it has not enjoyed since the 13th...
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Jul. 6, 1936
...catastrophes fatalistically as "the will of Allah," virtually all the mosques of Islam are uninsured. Last week the Continental Insurance Co. muscled into this virgin...
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Sep. 21, 1936
...MOHAMMED—Essad Bey—Longmans, Green ($2.50). Melodramatic biography by a writer who argues that Islam is "still the most vital world religion" and that its aim is...
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Feb. 22, 1937
(See front cover) India has no native state so rich, potent and extensive as Hyderabad which is about the size of the United Kingdom and there last week the Royal Family of the Asatia Dynasty celebrated the Silver Jubilee of "The Richest Man in the World," Lieut. General His Exalted Highness Sir Mir Osman Ali ...
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Mar. 8, 1937
SOMETHING OF MYSELF—Rudyard Kipling—Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Rudyard Kipling lies a-mouldering in his grave, but last week his words were again on the march. Crowds gathered, as always, to watch the parade go by, to stiffen with small-boy excitement at the drums and tramplings of the military band. Kipling's last parade petered out before the finish, ...
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Mar. 22, 1937
ITALY A dowager decked with diamonds is like a Great Power decked with colonies, because she is convinced that she has to have them and it often makes her angry to be asked why. Arid as diamonds is most of the Italian colony of Libya, for most of it consists of desert sands (see map, ...
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Apr. 5, 1937
...hailing of Benito Mussolini by the Moslems of Libya as "Protector of Islam" (TIME, March 22) and his triumphant entry into Tripoli marked more cozening...
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Jul. 19, 1937
Britain's new Cabinet, anxious to announce the terms of their decision to partition Palestine (TIME, July 12), met at No. 10 Downing Street last week in worried session over what might be the attitude of Benito Mussolini. Would Il Duce use his super-power radio station at Bari, which daily broadcasts in Arabic to the natives ...
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Nov. 1, 1937
...direction of a board consisting of two Christians and one Mohammedan, all Islam felt a sense of outrage and all over Palestine irate Arab groups...
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Dec. 27, 1937
...Daily for four days they packed themselves into the smoke-blue auditorium of Islam Grotto in Pittsburgh's slummy North Side, across the Allegheny River from the...
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Jan. 10, 1938
...was falling to pieces, that Benito Mussolini was a proper protector for Islam. Britain protested officially and unofficially. Italy's answer was to increase the Bari...
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Feb. 7, 1938
...lies the avoidance of tautology. His very being would de novo prefer Islam and his statement of such fact is redundant. Exasperated, Sir George again...
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Sep. 26, 1938
...gesture to impress the Führer and to curry a little favor from Islam to keep the British worried in Palestine.
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Oct. 24, 1938
...palace clique foresees for him the future role of Caliph of all Islam. To the studied ambiguity of the 1917 declaration by Arthur James Balfour,...
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Jan. 16, 1939
Rafael Sabatini's 34th adventure story, The Sword of Islam (Houghton Mifflin, $2.50), compares favorably with his best work (Scaramouche, Captain Blood)....
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Jan. 30, 1939
...long nursed an ambition to have their monarch designated Caliph of all Islam, spiritual head of all Moslems. That job has been vacant since 1924...
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Jul. 3, 1939
...in French-mandated Syria and British-mandated Palestine. Il Duce proclaimed himself "Protector of Islam" two years ago, but last spring he nevertheless invaded Albania, a predominantly...
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Jan. 1, 1940
Outraged Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst, self-styled "peripatetic bifurcated volcano of language," wrote to Secretary of the Interior Ickes: "The press quotes you as saying Senator Vandenberg is the Senate's greatest mumbler of long words. Why did you do that to me? What have I done to you? You know very well that I am a ...
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Mar. 4, 1940
...place. Since that time the doughty fanatical firebrand, also called "Champion of Islam" and "Holy Man of the Sulaiman Mountains," has lived by two premises:...
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Jun. 24, 1940
...civilized people of Imperial and Christian Rome." Il Duce, self-styled "Protector of Islam" (which includes Palestine's Arabs), said nothing.
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Oct. 14, 1940
...by Spain and guided by Mussolini under his title of Defender of Islam. This was nonsense. Spaniards and Moslems have been enemies since the 8th...
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Dec. 30, 1940
...British were last week busy offsetting Mussolini's claim to be "Protector of Islam." To England's Moslems the British Treasury, which is already subsidizing pilgrimages of...
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Feb. 10, 1941
...already largely pledged to Britain although Signer Mussolini declared himself Defender of Islam in 1937. In the East the British had once more reversed their...
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Mar. 17, 1941
Abdullah-ibn-Husein, Emir of Trans-Jordan, is a short, plump, jovial fighting man who comes from a long line of noble fighting men. His father was Husein-ibn-Ali, onetime King of Hejaz, and he traces his ancestry in the male line straight back to the son of the daughter of Mohammed. He likes to drive in swift motorcars, ...
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May. 12, 1941
With a terrible, pregnant symbolism, World War II jumped last week from the birthplace of democracy to the birthplace of mankind. Five days after Athens fell, fighting broke out in Iraq, traditional site of the Garden of Eden. In its beginning the new conflict was a minor embarrassment to Britain; in its potentialities it was ...
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Jun. 9, 1941
ITALY (see cover) The bullfrog has protruding eyes and makes a loud, guttural noise, as if he owned the frog pond. He feeds on any living animal matter which he can swallow, and is in turn devoured by creatures stronger than he, such as snakes, fishes, herons, alligators, etc.—Encyclopaedia Britannica and other sources. This week ...
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Jun. 23, 1941
...To some of India's 78,000,000 Mohammedans, suckled on the fighting creed of Islam, the nonviolent and democratic ideals of Mohandas Gandhi and his followers are...
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Sep. 29, 1941
...Middle Eastern campaigns but British prestige would suffer a further dip in Islam's eyes. For a brief moment it looked as if Britain had chosen...
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Oct. 5, 1942
...Mohammed, alias Muck-Muhd the Prophet, alias Poole, leader of the Temple of Islam, rolled up in a rug under his mother's bed. They locked up...
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Nov. 2, 1942
...not only of all the principal Hindu sects but also Christianity and Islam. To Ramakrishna the act of worshiping God was more important than the...
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Jan. 25, 1943
From Bagdad, ancient center of Islam when it rose to its highest power in the western world, came...
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May. 24, 1943
...the Near East remained a question. Axis propaganda had stimulated anti-Zionism throughout Islam, and had left Moslem nationalism aglow. General Giraud's firm stand last week...
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Sep. 27, 1943
...leeches, indulge in sex. It is the month of Ramadan, holiest in Islam's year, and conscientious observance of its requirements can atone for a solid...
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May. 29, 1944
...His manhood for one moment or for the twinkling of an eye." Islam diminished but never drowned the Coptic influence. In the 17th Century, Jesuits...
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Jun. 5, 1944
...in their beards. Whence came these foreign notions in the heads of Islam's young women? Through their charitable "Drop of Milk Society" they had boldly...
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Mar. 5, 1945
(See Cover) The U.S. destroyer, her taut beauty leashed in Jidda Bay, had dressed for the King of Saudi Arabia. The sight was something to belay an admiral. The King's rugs covered the steel deck. The King's gilded chairs gleamed against the grey turrets. On the forecastle deck, the King's tent stood in the somnolent ...
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Dec. 24, 1945
...string of titles — Abdul Hamid II, Sultan of Turkey, Caliph of Islam, Prince of the Faithful, Master of the World and Custodian of the...
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Feb. 25, 1946
UNO's first session had given a reasonable hope that the nations might be able to get along with each other. But last week, in & out of UNO, came a series of Russian moves, from Canada to Syria to Manchuria, that added up to a worldwide Russian power drive. When the week ended, international relations ...
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May. 20, 1946
...president, replacing Moslem Azad, whom Jinnah bitterly regards as a traitor to Islam. Jinnah and Nehru walked together for five minutes through a bower of...
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May. 27, 1946
...wave of persecution which they foresee as an outcome of a resurgent Islam. Trinity Saved. Persecution was the normal expectation of the Copts for over...
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Aug. 5, 1946
...the point at which Russia enters the game as the champion of Islam, a role Moscow has been quietly rehearsing for the past two years....
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Aug. 26, 1946
...bitter struggle over Palestine. The struggle involved the British Empire, world Judaism, Pan-Islam, Russia and inevitably, as a result ...
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Sep. 16, 1946
...trade unions into allies; 2) strengthen the Catholic and Protestant Churches and Islam; 3) encourage fascism "in a veiled form." The Catholic Church, Varga charges,...
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Oct. 21, 1946
Adolf Hitler was the subject of some nasty gossip last week. Burbled the wife of Nazi Secretary of State Otto Meissner (now awaiting trial at Dachau): the Fuhrer had a son, Helmuth, by Frau Goebbels, and "I am the only survivor who knows it." It all began, she confided to newshawks, in the summer of ...
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Mar. 17, 1947
That implacable educator, History, at last assigned a lesson that even the duller members of the class could grasp. Britain, its Government had announced, no longer possessed the resources to continue its comparatively puny military aid to Greece. India had all but left the Empire. Burma and Malaya were going. South Africa was tugging at ...
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Jun. 30, 1947
...right arm, left arm, head, ears, right foot, left foot." Loosely organized, Islam is the religion of a people separated by deserts and living in...
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Sep. 1, 1947
...as Davies, Phillips and friends signed their final papers, Yemen's Prince Saif al-Islam Abdullah stepped from a big Phillips Petroleum Co. plane at Bartlesville. He...
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Sep. 1, 1947
The Moral Equivalent Sir: It is with deep satisfaction that I read, at last, in a national magazine the clear, simple statement of our only hope as individuals and as nations in the Atomic Age: "The dilemma could only be solved ... by finding the moral equivalent of the atomic bomb" (TIME, Aug. 4). The ...
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Sep. 22, 1947
From all over the world last week U.N. delegates, their families, assistants and secretaries poured into New York City by train, plane and luxury liner, for the opening of the Assembly at Flushing. More than 1,800 hotel reservations had to be made, canceled, adjusted and checked. There were questions galore. "Pakistan? Where's Pakistan?" asked a ...
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Oct. 27, 1947
...which gradually assimilated her. A few years after the Prophet Mohamed sent Islam forth to conquer the world, Moslems appeared in India. After the 11th...
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Nov. 17, 1947
Publicity for Communism Sir: I should like to reply to the letter of Mr. Bern Dibner in the Oct. 27 issue. If he believes that the best way to destroy Communism is to keep it under cover, then I believe that he is thinking dangerously. The mere fact that TIME features men like Gromyko and ...
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Dec. 1, 1947
...The university's 32-man Senatus is the highest religious and educational authority in Islam; its rector is the nearest thing to a Moslem pope. But since...
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Dec. 8, 1947
...of their advocates was a fanaticism unknown since the first flush of Islam, wherever the fanatics were brought to trial, almost without exception they failed...
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Dec. 8, 1947
...League and . . . Pakistan. There can be no compromise between Islam and any other world philosophy or life system, be it communism, fascism,...
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Dec. 8, 1947
Early last month John Snedaker, TIME-LIFE International's Cairo office manager, was feeling fine. As the man responsible for getting TIME branch-printed each week for distribution to 16 Middle Eastern countries, he had dispatched copies of TIME to members of the U.S. Congressional Armed Services Committee, newly arrived in Cairo from a tour of Europe. They ...
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Dec. 15, 1947
When [the Roman soldiers] went in numbers into the lanes of the city with their swords drawn, they slew those whom they overtook without mercy, and set fire to the houses whither the Jews were fled. . . . [They] made the whole city run with blood, to such a degree indeed that the fire ...
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Jan. 26, 1948
...the southwestern corner of Arabia, are entitled to be called Saif el Islam (Sword of Islam). The Swords have frequently crossed each other, vying for...
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Feb. 9, 1948
For five hours, as Gandhi's body was pulled through the streets of Delhi, Vallabhbhai Patel crouched on the funeral cart, his head bowed; not once did he raise it. Alongside, barefoot in the dust, walked Jawaharlal Nehru. Said Nehru: "I have a sense of utter shame." The shame spread through the world with the news ...
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Mar. 22, 1948
...Leaguers waited in Riyadh, the late Yahya's eldest son Prince Seif el Islam Ahmed captured the Yemenite capital of Sana. Ahmed el Wazir, who had...
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May. 24, 1948
MIDDLE EAST (See Cover) Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. —Proverbs 27:1 Between one pink dawn and another over the Moabite hills last week came The Day. It brought forth events sufficient to crowd aside the worries of tomorrow. To the Jews of Palestine this ...
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Jun. 7, 1948
...first at the Dome of the Rock Mosque, third holiest shrine in Islam, then in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. As the little king...
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Sep. 20, 1948
Out of the travail of 400 million in the Indian subcontinent have come two symbols—a man of love and a man of hate. Last winter the man of nonviolence, Gandhi, died violently at the hands of an assassin. Last week the man of hate, Mohamed Ali Jinnah, at 71, died a natural death in Karachi, ...
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Nov. 29, 1948
...Court of Appeals, Farida ("Peerless") had other drawbacks as a queen in Islam. Before her marriage she had shocked orthodox Moslems with her Western ways....
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Jan. 10, 1949
...dissolved the Moslem Brotherhood . . . the only organization fighting for Islam in the past 20 years." By 10 o'clock that night Egypt had...
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May. 30, 1949
Playwright George S. Kaufman, 59 (Of Thee I Sing, You Can't Take It with You), and British-born Actress Leueen MacGrath, 34, who played the friendly secretary in the Mayfair, Broadway and movie versions of Edward, My Son, applied for a marriage license in Doylestown, Pa. Cinemagnate David O. Selzniclc, 47, who recently rented out his ...
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Jun. 20, 1949
The Paris Foreign Ministers' Conference was wheezing to an end. It would probably put some sort of limited agreement on the record; but barring last-minute Russian surprises, the agreement would be limited to just a smidgen more than nothing. Small Blessing. This week the ministers still have a chance of settling the question of trade ...
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Jul. 4, 1949
...works. Ahmadiyya Moslems already have mosques in Paris, London, Berlin and Chicago. Islam's missionaries to Holland, however, have not had easy going. First schooled in...
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Feb. 20, 1950
...campaign to win firm political friends everywhere; e.g., the Gaullists, the Vatican, Islam, and the Chinese Nationalists. The U.S. must not rely exclusively on formal...
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Dec. 25, 1950
...and Asian!" In the mosques the mullahs spoke of an affront to Islam. Last week the Moslem anger erupted in the most vicious rioting in...
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Mar. 12, 1951
...votes-for-women movement as a conspiracy by Christians, Jews and Communists to destroy Islam.
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Mar. 19, 1951
...shots fired in Teheran last week —four shots fired for oil and Islam—were heard around the world. Ali Razmara, Iran's best postwar Premier, was attending...
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May. 21, 1951
...life." His life, he said, was in danger. The fanatical, nationalistic Fadayan Islam had threatened to kill him because his government had jailed Fadayan terrorists....
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Jun. 4, 1951
(See Cover) The room on the second floor of Teheran's Majlis (Parliament) building was as bare as a hermit's cell. It was furnished with a sagging cot, a few dingy chairs, a foot locker, and a small table on which rested a half-used box of Kleenex, a bottle of ink, and a key ring with ...
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Jun. 18, 1951
When Correspondent Jim Bell went to Iran four months ago, he landed in a wave of good will toward TIME. Main reason: Many Iranians considered our February 5th story "Iran: Land of Insecurity" the soundest piece of reporting about their country ever printed in the foreign press. As you may remember, that story traced the ...
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Aug. 13, 1951
...concessions to resume negotiations with the British. The fanatically nationalist organization, Fedayan Islam, one of whose gunmen ...
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Aug. 13, 1951
...week, an Anglican bishop in a London speech, described the message of Islam. London (and all Christendom) is newly aware of Islam. The shouts of...
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Aug. 27, 1951
...the facts. At week's end, some 200 members of the fanatical Fedayan Islam charged through Teheran's streets to the Shah Mosque, knifing six policemen on...
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Sep. 10, 1951
(See Cover] By 4 p.m., the blinds, shut tight all day against the Riviera sun, snapped open. A bustle of servants and bodyguards on the second floor of Cannes' Carlton Hotel proclaimed the fact that His Majesty was awake. Shortly afterwards, a fat man with a prematurely balding head and a rakish hussar's mustache, appeared ...
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Sep. 10, 1951
...groups as his own "Salvation Army," the Moslem Brotherhood, the Crusaders of Islam. His most recent victim: Jordan's King Abdullah. Emir Tallal (40), heir apparent...
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Sep. 24, 1951
...Your coverage of late happenings in dynamite-laden trouble spots (i.e., South Africa, Islam, etc.) is most commendable, and one sure sign that everybody with "pull"...
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Oct. 15, 1951
...off from the Balkans and the Arab world too, and isolated from Islam. No one loved the Turks. The Turks loved no one. Then the...
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Oct. 22, 1951
For years, on the borders of the vast, desolate, far western Chinese province of Sinkiang, imperial Britain and imperialist Muscovy, Red Russian and White, China's bandits, warlords, Communists and Nationalists skirmished for power and position. None of them, however, won the allegiance of the hard-riding Kazak tribesmen who wandered the empty plains. Islamic nomads of ...
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Oct. 22, 1951
...India, and succeeded Jinnah as its ruler. In the restive world of Islam, where the way of the moderate is hard, he was the 13th...
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Oct. 29, 1951
...lies rich Kashmir, held by India and coveted by Pakistan. "Brothers in Islam," Liaquat began—and at that moment there was a sharp report, then another....
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Dec. 31, 1951
A new nation was born this week. In Tripoli and Benghazi, where proconsuls of the Phoenicians, the Caesars and the Ottomans once reigned, and the shards of Mussolini's latter-day empire molder mockingly in the African sun, bright new flags proclaimed the birth of the United Kingdom of Libya. A sage old Moslem spiritual leader became ...
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Jan. 7, 1952
(See Cover) Once upon a time, in a mountainous land between Baghdad and the Sea of Caviar, there lived a nobleman. This nobleman, after a lifetime of carping at the way the kingdom was run, became Chief Minister of the realm. In a few months he had the whole world hanging on his words and ...
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Feb. 25, 1952
...freedom for Navab Safavi, imprisoned leader of Iran's most feared terror group—Fadayan Islam. The terrorists had picked young Mohammed Mehdi Mojtahedi to kill Fatemi because...
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Mar. 31, 1952
French Morocco is the site of the latest American invasion, peaceful but hectic, bringing airmen and planes and contractors with millions of dollars to spend. The five big air bases which the U.S. is building in the northwest corner of Africa will handle anything that S.A.C. (the U.S. Strategic Air Command) now has or will ...
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Apr. 7, 1952
U.S. Protestantism's foremost theologian, Reinhold Niebuhr.*has written a thoughtful and hardheaded essay on his country's political philosophy. The Irony of American History (Scribner; $2.50) is an odd-sounding title—most native commentaries on U.S. politics stress such words as "challenge," "promise" or "hope." Niebuhr uses his word advisedly. Not so final as tragedy, not so hopeless as ...
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Apr. 28, 1952
...states on the idea that Spain, with her ancient cultural ties to Islam, is the natural intermediary between the Middle East and the Western powers....
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Jun. 30, 1952
...The strictness of the fast was an impressive profession of faith in Islam, the world's great third-force religion, a monotheist faith akin to Christianity and...
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Aug. 18, 1952
...visible through the slits in their veils. But in the cities of Islam, time has chipped at the hard pillars of Islamic dogma: ¶ In...
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Sep. 22, 1952
...and led by a Kurd, Mustafa Barzani, a onetime mullah (teacher of Islam) whom the Russians turned into a general. Barzani's army stood poised to...
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Dec. 1, 1952
...assassin, caressing his beard, and said: "You are a brave son of Islam." The two prayed while the teapot bubbled in the background. Tahmassebi's next...
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Dec. 29, 1952
...cross-legged in their stocking feet in Cairo's vast, thousand-year-old El Azhar Mosque, Islam's two most important military chiefs, Egypt's General Mohammed Naguib and Syria's Colonel...
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Feb. 16, 1953
...one subject the Indonesians are as explosive as their island volcanoes: religion. Islam provided both the force and the fervor that ousted the ...
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Apr. 20, 1953
...of the invasions of the West by the World, e.g., those of Islam and Genghis Khan. Toynbee concedes that, since 1945, the West finds itself...
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Jun. 15, 1953
...century Hindu-Javanese civilization of Madjapahit. Then came the swift, peaceful penetration of Islam. Securing a firm but gentle grip on the islands (Indonesia is now...
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Sep. 7, 1953
...of the good Moslem—and nearly all of the 350 million people of Islam are accounted good Moslems—is not an easy one. Five times a day,...
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Oct. 12, 1953
He who loves the rose should put tip with its thorns. —Old Turkish saying ONE day in 1853, Nicholas I, Czar of all the Russias, peered southward over his aristocratic nose and voiced the opinion that Turkey was indeed "the sick man of Europe." Exactly 100 years later, an astute and wealthy Texan named George ...
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Oct. 19, 1953
...a proud and irritable people, unshakably Moslem, the first Indonesians to embrace Islam in the 11th century and the ...
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Nov. 16, 1953
...as Chief of State. ¶ The state will make "the teachings of Islam known to people." The Hindu members of the Assembly protested, then walked...
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Dec. 14, 1953
...Attila on his march to Rome; another preached the first Crusade against Islam; another excommunicated Martin Luther; another was taken prisoner by Napoleon.* It is...
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Jan. 25, 1954
...expel the foreigners, return Egypt to the simple brotherhood of primitive, eighth-century Islam. The Ihkwan battle-cry: "We will knock at the doors of heaven with...
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Apr. 19, 1954
...the Celebes, said he, have forced more than 6,000 Christians to adopt Islam under penalty of death. Many others have been tortured and killed. Bibles...
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Aug. 2, 1954
...a long speech to 6,000 Malayans on "The Meaning of Patience in Islam," the mufti of Selangor was shouted down after 45 minutes. Alibi. In...
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Aug. 16, 1954
.... . We judge it opportune to demand in the name of Islam and of the Moroccan people the return of their legal sovereign, Sidi...
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Aug. 23, 1954
IT was the morning of Islam's greatest feast day, Aid el Kebir. On that day, by sacrificing a...
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Sep. 27, 1954
...rarely lasts more than 20 minutes. So it has been for centuries. Islam lived through its first three centuries without any clergy at all, for...
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Oct. 11, 1954
...the world of faith and the world of practical affairs." Not so Islam. "Nowhere in the Koran could I find any reference to a need...
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Oct. 18, 1954
A STUDY OF HISTORY, Vols. VII-X (2,685 pp.)—Arnold J. Toynbee—Oxford ($35). Above the high altar of the Benedictine Abbey of Ampleforth, in Yorkshire, hung a man. He was holding on precariously to the foot of the crucifix, while a voice said: "Amplexus expecta [Cling and wait] !" Thus Professor Arnold Toynbee once saw himself in ...
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Nov. 8, 1954
...square. With Ankara under his heel, Ataturk toured country districts announcing that Islam "is a dead and finished thing." Returning suddenly after eight years' absence...
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Apr. 25, 1955
...peninsula. That is the way Yemen's despotic ruler, the Imam Saif el Islam Ahmed, wants it. He bars foreigners and does everything he can to...
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Apr. 25, 1955
...end of the Nile in 1952? Replied Farouk: "A great chief of Islam came to my help with a noticeable sum . . . Unfortunately,...
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May. 23, 1955
...ably than it has ever been told before. Tracing sectarian rivalries within Islam, the book fills in the shadowy picture of the dread "Assassins." At...
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Jun. 6, 1955
Fiercely mustachioed General Nader Batmanghelich, chief of staff of the Iranian army, raised a pickax one day last week and brought it down hard on one of the highest domes in Teheran. This ceremonial blow dramatized the Iranian government's outlawing of the Bahai religion in the land where it was born and began the conversion ...
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Aug. 29, 1955
...more wounded in a spreading, sporadic rebellion that brought the wrath of Islam close to the shores of Europe. The uprisings threatened to cut off...
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Sep. 5, 1955
...divided into three parts. In each. Frenchman and Arab, Christian cross and Islam crescent meet in uneasy union, but with differing degrees of hostility and...
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Sep. 5, 1955
"That looks like one of them," said the grim-faced French colon. From the six Moroccan tribesmen bound together with a single rope, he picked out a shaven-headed Berber, captured by the French Foreign Legion in the plundered shambles that had been the prosperous town of Oued Zem (pop. 4,600). A helmeted Legionnaire slapped the suspect ...
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Sep. 26, 1955
(See Cover) Midnight in Cairo on the last day of August. In the Revolutionary Command Council headquarters in ex-King Farouk's old pleasure house on the Nile, a phone rings. A big man with grizzled hair answers it. "The Jews are in Khan Yunis," says a tense voice. "I am ready to move now." The speaker ...
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Nov. 28, 1955
...ablest men, was assassinated there by a member of the fanatic Fadayan Islam (Crusaders of Islam). Last week 72-year-old Hussein Ala, the ablest of Razmara's...
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Dec. 19, 1955
...KEITH FUNSTON President New York Stock Exchange New York City Israel & Islam Sir: Nothing points up the pro-Arab bias of TIME more than the...
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Dec. 19, 1955
...moose-tall (6 ft. 6 in.) King Saud of Arabia, 53, ruler over Islam's holiest places and the world's richest oil lands. His party of 234,...
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Jan. 9, 1956
A Place in the Sun Sir: Delightful spread on Florida's Governor Roy Collins [Dec. 19]—a real booster for and credit to his state, which is fast becoming the Detroiters' "second home." RICHARD P. PETTY Detroit Sir: Though I love Florida's sun and air (which would have made Goethe desert Italy), and I respect its universities ...
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Jan. 23, 1956
...an instinct for artful concealment—has largely disappeared from many modernized corners of Islam, but in Morocco it has hung on to become a symbol of...
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Jan. 30, 1956
...statesman of the Arab world. But the supreme spiritual voice of all Islam in effect denies that protestation. From Cairo's 1,000-year-old Al Azhar University, the...
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Jan. 30, 1956
...the Arab nation," which ethnically it is not. It also declares that "Islam is the religion of the State," but gives no say to the...
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Mar. 19, 1956
The competitive spirit runs strong among the young bloods at England's two great universities, Oxford and Cambridge. Year after year they vie with one another on the cricket field, in the debating hall, on the Thames. Three years ago, returning by air from a trip to Hong Kong, an enthusiastic young Cantabrigian named Adrian Cowell ...
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May. 28, 1956
...which Red China's Chou En-lai made much headway. Says "Nationalism, Marxism and Islam can be united" and obviously thinks he can handle the Reds, now...
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Aug. 20, 1956
...ranges from the time of the Punic Wars through Constantine, and his Islam map from Mohammed to the last days of the Ottoman Empire. To...
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Aug. 20, 1956
...this ancient sea: the days when it was Rome's mare nostrum, then Islam's crescent empire, at last the shared hegemony of three great empires—British, French...
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Sep. 10, 1956
...sees history as cyclical, recurrent, and hence irrelevant, while Christianity, Judaism and Islam see it governed by Intellect and Will, i.e., God. But in assigning...
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Oct. 15, 1956
...mosques and say their prayers in peace among the Hindus. But while Islam and Christianity waxed great and strong, the religion of Mother India, which...
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Nov. 5, 1956
...Eastern Christianity declined in numbers, vigor and territory. Within 80 years of Islam's birth, the ...
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Jan. 28, 1957
(See Cover) In the warm sunshine, as a swarm of Russian-built MIGs circled overhead, an American-piloted Convair dropped down on Cairo's airport. Erupting from its interior came six fierce-looking bodyguards, their gold daggers glinting beside shiny machine pistols thrust in their black bandoleers. Twenty-one guns boomed ceremonially as a tall, majestically robed Arab King stepped ...
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Feb. 4, 1957
..."anyone who continues to obey him will be considered a traitor to Islam." That did it. Two battalions of the royal Moroccan army, plowing through...
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Feb. 25, 1957
...of the hour, he bore all the prestige of the ruler of Islam's heartland and of the world's richest oil lands, reinforced by a resplendent...
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Mar. 11, 1957
...1955 takes readers on a guided tour of Hinduism, Buddhism. Chinese philosophy. Islam. Judaism and Christianity. Most spectacular part of the book is a collection...
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Mar. 11, 1957
...has spawned half a dozen revolutionary movements—among them the fanatically Moslem Darul Islam and the so-called "Republic of the South Moluccas." At the head of...
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Apr. 1, 1957
...a seamless broadcloth robe, joined other pilgrims in a trek to Mecca, Islam's holiest city. On the last lap of a strenuous 17-nation serenade through...
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Apr. 8, 1957
...stopped at its walls; Harran held fast to the ancient faith. Even Islam came to terms with the conservatives of Harran. This much could be...
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Apr. 22, 1957
...drink, eat, or indulge any other carnal appetite. Across the world of Islam from Casablanca to Djakarta, tempers are scratchy and emotions combustible. But Sultan...
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May. 6, 1957
...of Unity (a self-help faith) and Baha'i (a world brotherhood offshoot of Islam) "amounts to metaphysical and theological hodgepodge. And the history of each involves...
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May. 6, 1957
Seated in the oak-paneled office of his limestone palace on one of the barren hills overlooking his ramshackle capital of Amman, the slim, 21 -year-old King of Jordan spoke slowly, in a voice deep and rich for one so young. "I feel I am stronger than ever now. I have the support of my army ...
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May. 13, 1957
...and his hotbloods. The man: King Saud of Saudi Arabia, Protector of Islam's Holy Places. From the moment Nasser seized and then blocked the Suez...
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May. 20, 1957
VIRTUALLY unknown to the civilized world a century ago, Middle Africa sprawls forbiddingly across a full two-thirds of the earth's second largest continent, an area big enough to contain the entire U.S. with room to spare. On one side the hot Arab lands of North Africa are linked to Europe by more than 2,000 years ...
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Jun. 10, 1957
What is sin? Until relatively recently, American Protestant thought might be expected to give a simple and traditional answer to that question: sin, staining all men since the Fall, is the willful disobedience of God's law. After the theological battle between fundamentalism and liberalism, that answer was no longer sufficient —at least not to the ...
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Jun. 24, 1957
Three years ago, just at the height of an election campaign, a handsome young Moslem hodja named Fevzi Boyar arrived in the western Turkish town of Odemis. Like most of Turkey's Moslem divines, Hodja Boyar took a dim view of the secular government established by the late, great Kemal Ataturk,* rejoiced that Premier Adnan Menderes ...
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Jul. 8, 1957
...making way for new highways. A new $2,000,000 mosque, the first in Islam to boast an elevator, stands in the heart of Brunei town, the...
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Jul. 15, 1957
A Temple or a Tower? Sir: Your July 1 cover story, "The Temple Builder," provides a record and an insight to the thinking of our Supreme Court which every literate American should read. The court's recent decisions are terrifying. Did Khrushchev and Chou En-lai sit in on those historic decisions? If not, they were well ...
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Jul. 15, 1957
...made only fitful contact through commerce and, occasionally, war; the spread of Islam and the Mongol invasions actually "cut off Europe from any direct knowledge...
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Jul. 22, 1957
...swift-winged time came to an end for the legendary old Prince of Islam. ...
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Sep. 2, 1957
SYRIA sits at such a vital crossroads—between Europe, Africa and Asia—that the traffic through it has always been heavy, and its inhabitants have never had much chance for peace and quiet. Often a battleground, usually under foreign occupation, the area has no indigenous name; the word Syria was adopted by the Greeks to describe the ...
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Sep. 9, 1957
...instead of 48 stars it bore the single star and crescent of Islam. After 83 years of British rule, Malaya was an independent nation. With...
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Sep. 23, 1957
...Mohammed V of Morocco, is an ardent champion of women's rights in Islam, an area where a lot of pioneering remains to be done on...
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Sep. 23, 1957
...Alfred Richard of the White Fathers, linked Communism with the spread of Islam. Communists seek to weaken a powerful enemy, Christianity, said Father Richard, by...
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Nov. 11, 1957
...across half the world's girth. From Morocco to Indonesia, the drive of Islam's women toward emancipation has kept pace with the drive of their countries...
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Nov. 25, 1957
...Into London, with a jeweled dagger in his belt, flew Seif el Islam Mohammed el Badr, 28-year-old Crown Prince of Yemen, the feudal Arab kingdom...
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Jan. 27, 1958
...create new problems—problems of husbandless women roaming the streets." Delegates reported that Islam is making strong strides among Africans in competition with Christianity. Warned Anglican...
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Jan. 27, 1958
...of Pan, of Artemis, and in the ecstatic mysteries of Dionysus. In Islam, the Mevlevi dervishes still dance in patterns designed to expound cosmic laws...
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Mar. 10, 1958
...to tell Nasser of Yemen's adherence to the republic. Imam Saif el Islam Ahmed will keep his throne and his absolute power, and the arrangement...
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Mar. 10, 1958
(See Cover) On the tide of nationalism that swept the world after World War II, no young nation swam more proudly than Indonesia. Its 3,000 islands were rich with oil, bauxite, rubber, tin; its 85,000,000 citizens made it the world's biggest Moslem nation, sixth in population among all the nations of the world. In five ...
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Mar. 31, 1958
Gamal Abdel Nasser dined quietly at Aleppo's guesthouse, then announced with studied casualness that he was going out for a tour of Syria's largest city (pop. nearly 500,000). He climbed into a black sedan driven by Lieut. Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj, the man he has picked for his proconsul in Syria-now known as the United ...
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Apr. 7, 1958
PEOPLE OF THE REEDS (223 pp.)—Gavin Maxwell—Harper ($4.50). ARABESQUE AND HONEYCOMB (224 pp.) —Sacheverell Sifwe/l—Random House ($6). "The best book," says the Talmud, "is the world." The good travel book mirrors two worlds, the one the traveler visits, and the one he brings with him. These double worlds are fascinatingly mirrored in two new travel ...
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Apr. 7, 1958
...the palace, there was open muttering against the King. The keeper of Islam's holy places was being denounced by Nasser's partisans throughout the Middle East...
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Jun. 9, 1958
...to be established"), wants Europe to unite in a "defense pact" against Islam instead of the Soviet Union. A sharp pamphleteer and good debater, Debré...
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Jul. 28, 1958
(See Cover) In early July, when it gets searing hot in the Middle East, the man who had forehandedly helped make the place particularly hot went off on a graciously appointed yachting cruise with his family to visit his old friend Tito at the marshal's isle of Brioni in the blue Adriatic. In that way, ...
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Dec. 29, 1958
LETTERS FROM HILAIRE BELLOC (313 pp.)—Edited by Robert Speaight—McMillan ($6). "I myself write the best letters." —Hilaire Belloc These days, when getting a well-written letter in the mail is as rare as getting a refund from the tax collector, many readers will be happy to agree with Belloc's own estimate of himself. A self-described mixture ...
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Feb. 16, 1959
(See Cover) On the hot. dusty football field just outside Conakry, the graceful, black-skinned Guinea women danced tirelessly, sinuously. Blue silken turbans, spangled with gold, flashed in the blazing sun, as they stomped, glided, clapped their hands and leaped about. The clanking of the xylophones rose to fever pitch, then died away. Three griots (West ...
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Feb. 16, 1959
...in Asia for Christianity, on population problems, "cultural empathy," and on Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism and Roman Catholicism. Again and again they returned in their discussions...
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Mar. 30, 1959
...Koran outside his office door shouting: "Death to Arab nationalism, death to Islam!" Nasser, who hitherto has hesitated to make a jihad, or holy war,...
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Apr. 6, 1959
...Azhar University, world center of Islamic learning, the rector or "sheik of Islam" urged the Iraqi faithful "to rise as one man" in defense against...
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Apr. 13, 1959
...world. It marks a spot sacred to three religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. There Moses heard the voice of Yahweh out of the burning bush,...
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May. 4, 1959
...of 83 delegates from 32 church bodies met to consider relations with Islam and give forth a message "to all our brothers in Christ." Excerpts:...
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May. 11, 1959
...by the Council of Chalcedon in 451, and with the emergence of Islam, Coptic Christianity virtually went underground for centuries. Its modern adherents preserve the...
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May. 11, 1959
...traditional flowing robes, some 400 imams one day last week left al-Azhar, Islam's oldest university, and fanned out through the streets of Cairo to spread...
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May. 25, 1959
...doctors, both Yemeni and Roman, diligently labor to resharpen the Sword of Islam. Meanwhile, the women lounge around a beach hotel near Rome, relishing television,...
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Jun. 29, 1959
...feudal throne of the Imam of Yemen, and the reigning Sword of Islam wields it only so long as he can keep his enemies at...
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Jul. 6, 1959
...week. All through the Middle East, Africa and wherever in the world Islam has taken root, airports, seaports, railroad stations and bus terminals were crowded...
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Jul. 13, 1959
...and turned it into a church. Later, Saladin Avon it back for Islam, lovingly coated the interior arches with mosaic, the walls with marble. Suleiman...
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Jul. 27, 1959
...serious efforts are being made to heal a schism that has divided Islam for more than 1,000 years. The bitterly opposed sects are the Shiites...
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Aug. 10, 1959
"Every white man knows his time is up," snapped the frail-looking Negro in the embroidered pillbox to 5,500 Negroes packed into Manhattan's St. Nicholas Arena one hot afternoon last week. "I am here to teach you how to be free. Yes, free from the white man's yoke. We want unity of all darker peoples on ...
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Aug. 31, 1959
The Visit Sir: The impending visit of Khrushchev to the U.S. places those who have been fighting Communism as an enemy of Americanism in a delicate position. It is obvious that Khrushchev must personally see America to understand why it would be inadvisable for him to precipitate Russia into a war. On the other hand, ...
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Sep. 14, 1959
...Sea domain with a shipload of wives and concubines, the Sword of Islam flashed commandingly. "I swear by Allah." he proclaimed from his palace balcony...
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Nov. 23, 1959
...station hand in hand with someone on the wanted list. Communism & Islam. Inevitably, the Rev. Nicholas Bhengu is known throughout Africa as "the black...
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Mar. 14, 1960
...by appointing him the first Ecumenical Patriarch of the Greek church under Islam. And one of Gennadius' first acts was to repudiate the Council of...
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Apr. 18, 1960
See Cover: What kind of man makes a good missionary? Once, a preacher who needed an assistant decided to take a chance on a middle-aged man who was bossy, opinionated and temperamental, with a strong streak of fanaticism and an unsavory past. He turned out to have picked the greatest missionary of all time. Saul ...
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May. 30, 1960
...Mecca to welcome the year's first pilgrims at the holy places of Islam.
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Jun. 13, 1960
...corruption of Christian teaching in splinter sects, often as an upsurge of Islam with its tolerance of polygamy and a theology far less demanding than...
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Jun. 13, 1960
...the "white man's faith" is now facing unprecedented opposition from nationalism, from Islam, from witches and ancestor worshipers, and from the self-styled Messiahs of Christian...
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Aug. 15, 1960
...directed imams to preach sermons against the Shah as a "traitor to Islam," and Nasser urged his fellow Arab nations to withdraw their ambassadors from...
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Sep. 5, 1960
...generally worked out well in Pakistan, providing the alien bride 1) adopts Islam, 2) accepts the constraints of Moslem society, e.g., never talks to her...
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Sep. 12, 1960
(See Cover) At fever pitch, the crowd plunged through Teheran's vaulted bazaar, making its way past brilliant stacks of rugs, past squatting tinsmiths and hanging ranks of newly slain lambs and, at last, down a labyrinthine alley to the home of Ayatollah Mohammed Behbehani, Teheran's most powerful religious leader. In Ayatollah Mohammed's great walled garden, ...
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Oct. 3, 1960
Religion & the Campaign Sir: Call me Ishmael* if you like, but this Protestant will vote for Kennedy. I would like to get the word around that one does not have to embrace the Catholic faith to vote for him. There are some who reject the doctrine of the infallibility of the Pope but accept ...
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Oct. 10, 1960
...way until mercenaries were employed. By contrast, he argues, the soldiers of Islam conquered about 20 times the territory in one-fourth the time. Rome, the...
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Dec. 5, 1960
(See Cover) At five minutes before nine the warning bell clanged, and the chattering parliamentarians in the lobby began to file into the House to take their seats. Precisely on the hour, a voice raised the traditional cry "Mistah Speakah," and the legislators froze as a bemedaled attendant solemnly descended the nine red-carpeted steps into ...
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Dec. 5, 1960
...the government was careful to eliminate green, which for many Africans symbolizes Islam but in Chad is the color of the opposition party. Cameroun happily...
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Feb. 3, 1961
...revolutionaries, he is also driving to extend his influence southward through religion. Islam, with an estimated 88 million African followers, is the continent's biggest religion,...
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Feb. 24, 1961
...no color bar will win Africa: the religion of Karl Marx, or Islam, where monarch and slave pray side by side in complete equality. It...
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Mar. 31, 1961
...grown apace. And to keep up the semblance of Soviet affection for Islam, every year a token delegation from Russia's 30 million Moslems is allowed...
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Mar. 31, 1961
Armed guards now patrol the catwalks over the mess hall in California's maximum-security Folsom prison—the result of two riots early this month. At San Quentin, wardens and guards have new instructions not to attempt to break up any gathering of Negro convicts without assistance. At the Reformatory for Males in Breathedsville, Md., last week, three ...
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Apr. 7, 1961
U.S. Protestantism—once famous for its diversity—is homogenizing into what is almost a new faith, and if it continues in its present direction, it will be stone-cold dead in a couple of dozen years. This thesis comes from no hot-eyed prophet of doom but from a coolly analytical professor of Ethics at the University of Chicago ...
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Apr. 7, 1961
CAIRO last week wore the synthetic festive air peculiar to Nasserism. In English, Arabic and Swahili, signs and pennants screamed: "Death to Lumumba's Murderers"; "French Killers, Hands Off Algiers"; "Freedom. Freedom to Kenyatta." As the smiling U.A.R. President arrived at Cairo University auditorium to welcome delegates to the grandiosely named third All-Africa People's Conference, phalanxes ...
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Apr. 14, 1961
...from Rome, and the Imam's probable heir, ambitious Crown Prince Seif el Islam el Badr, 35, summoned all governors and deputy governors to confer with...
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May. 5, 1961
...of moral order. Great world cultures of the past— e.g., China, India, Islam — were held together by ideals based on a spiritual unity. The...
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May. 19, 1961
From the far-flung corners of the Moslem world, pilgrims last week converged on Mecca, city of the Prophet's birth, where they would make the ritual seven circuits around the shrouded monument and enter to kiss the Black Stone handed down by the Angel Gabriel to Abraham. If they took time to notice, they might have ...
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May. 19, 1961
Jews like to joke that when three of them get together, they are bound to produce four opinions. As of last week, Jewish leaders with deeply held and vastly differing opinions were involved in a dispute that went to the very heart of Jewry. At immediate issue was the relationship between the U.S.'s 5,500,000 Jews ...
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Jul. 7, 1961
...was. Into the seat of power moved the Imam's son, Seif el Islam el Badr, 35, a darkly handsome prince who has led Yemen a...
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Jul. 21, 1961
...an infidel named "Mister Referendum." who would close mosques, substitute Christianity for Islam, and pack their women off to brothels. The big "no" vote means...
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Aug. 18, 1961
In the velvet darkness the posse of 16 white men crouched noiselessly at the jungle's edge. Just beyond, in a clearing, glowed the campfires of their prey: a tiny band of Brazilian Indians whose men had clubbed to death, in a reprisal raid, a white rubber tapper who had killed one of their tribe. When ...
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Sep. 8, 1961
To brush-clean, flag-bedecked Belgrade last week came an emperor, two kings and two princes, three foreign ministers, six prime ministers and nine presidents.-Representing 23 countries, they had been invited by Yugoslavia's President Tito for a Conference of Unaligned Nations. Even as the delegates began to stream in, word reached Belgrade of Russia's announcement that it ...
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Dec. 8, 1961
(See Cover) The greatest gathering of Christians since the 16th century, when the Council of Trent worked for 18 years to counter the Protestant Reformation, ends this week in New Delhi. It is the third Assembly of the World Council of Churches. Behind all the well-organized confusion — the hustling to and fro between auditorium ...
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Feb. 16, 1962
For the Moslems of Algeria, as for their brethren elsewhere in Islam, it was Leilat-echek, or the Night of Doubt, when the faithful traditionally...
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May. 25, 1962
...for the murder attempt, it was organized by the fanatically anti-Sukarno Darul Islam sect, which promised that Bung would need all the good luck his...
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Jun. 1, 1962
Islam last week marked the end of the 1,333rd pilgrimage to Mecca. As...
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Aug. 31, 1962
...upheld the faith against heretics. Although isolated from other Christian groups by Islam's triumph in the East, the Maronites always maintained their loyalty to the...
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Sep. 7, 1962
...answers that man has proposed to the question of what follows death. Islam preached an afterlife of sensual pleasure for the true believer; some Hellenic...
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Sep. 28, 1962
...Yemen, 71, revered as "The Big Turban" among his 5,000,000 subjects in Islam's most feudal state, a cunning caliph who for 13 years managed to...
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Oct. 5, 1962
...in bed. He was succeeded as Imam by Crown Prince Seif el Islam el Badr, 36, a scholarly left-winger who promised to modernize Yemen so...
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Jan. 4, 1963
The Year of Our Lord 1962 was a year of American resolve, Russian orbiting, European union and Chinese war. In a tense yet hope-filled time, these were the events that dominated conversation and invited history's scrutiny. But history has a long eye, and it is quite possible that in her vision 1962's most fateful rendezvous ...
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Jan. 11, 1963
...popular saying in Moslem Egypt, "and on earth Nasser." The God of Islam and Egypt's dictator make a prosperous team. Today the faith of Mohammed...
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Feb. 1, 1963
...campaign is a product of history and geography, as well as of Islam's militant spread across modern Africa. The 8,000,000 Sudanese of the sandy north...
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Apr. 26, 1963
According to the 19-month calendar followed by the worldwide religion known as Bahai, the first day of this week was the 13th of Jalal, in the year 120. It was a red-letter day in the lives of Bahai's 2,000,000 followers. In Haifa, Israel, 504 leaders of the sect gathered to elect by secret ballot nine ...
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Jun. 7, 1963
...Ben Laden: "To me there are only two things in life—work and Islam." ∙Simca, France's third largest automaker (after Renault and Citroën), this week gets...
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Jul. 5, 1963
As the sun began to rise high above the wine-dark Aegean Sea, the twelve bells of Great Lavra monastery on Mount Athos pealed out a welcome. In the rock-strewn bay at the foot of the 500-ft. promontory on which Great Lavra stands, a procession of five ships unloaded 1,000 visitors. Jeeps and trucks carried the ...
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Jan. 17, 1964
...Judaism, and its historic links with the Old Testament, and even with Islam. By meeting with Athenagoras, he created an "opening to the East" that...
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Mar. 6, 1964
There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats. —Julius Caesar, Act IV, Scene 3 But there was. In Miami Beach last week, Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. acted out a scene that was worthy of the Old Bard himself—or maybe P. T. Barnum. Just as he said he would, he took the heavyweight championship of the ...
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May. 1, 1964
...a stronghold of late Buddhism and its imagery when it retreated from Islam, which swept through India during the 12th century. Sequestered in the Himalayas,...
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Aug. 14, 1964
Islam's oldest university has a new rector. Ending a seven month search Egyptian...
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Aug. 14, 1964
In the early days of Islam, when conquering Arab armies swept across Christian Syria, mosque making consisted of...
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Sep. 11, 1964
...to include a word of good will for other non-Christian faiths, notably Islam. Distrust & Resentment. U.S. Jews were dismayed by the tone and spirit...
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Oct. 9, 1964
...the Council's Coordinating Commission, which added a few sentences of praise for Islam and a vaguely worded hope for Jewish conversion; by implication, it reaffirmed...
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Dec. 25, 1964
CHRISTIANITY (See Cover) Behold, I make all things new. —Revelation 21:5 In Bethlehem of Judaea, most probably between 9 and 6 B.C., a son was born to a carpenter of Nazareth and his wife. For 20 centuries men have proclaimed this event to be the turning point in the history of the world—that God mysteriously ...
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Mar. 5, 1965
Malcolm X had been a pimp, a cocaine addict and a thief. He was an unashamed demagogue. His gospel was hatred: "Your little babies will get polio!" he cried to the "white devils." His creed was violence: "If ballots won't work, bullets will." Yet even before his bullet-ripped body went to its grave, Malcolm X ...
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Mar. 5, 1965
Challenge in Asia Sir: Despite all its obscurities, the war in South Viet Nam is a Chinese test of our resolve to contain their expansion by whatever means necessary. The Chinese can see that a victory for them in Viet Nam will raise their bargaining stature in the inevitable nuclear showdown between Communist China and ...
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Mar. 19, 1965
They start arriving on the steep stone steps at an early hour. In wintertime, the motorcycle jackets and minks, chesterfields and children's snowsuits quilt the entrance. In summer, every shirtsleeve seems to end in an ice cream cone. In any season it is Sunday, and the people wadded up against the doubled Corinthian columns are ...
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Apr. 9, 1965
"If you see an Indian and a cobra, strangle the Indian first," the saying goes in Indo-China. Javanese peasants say, "When you meet a snake and a slit-eye [Chinese], first kill the slit-eye, then the snake." Among Punjabis the proverb is, "If you spy a serpent and a Sindhi, get the Sindhi first." VARIATIONS of ...
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Apr. 16, 1965
...year 1384 A.H. (after the hegira). It is the last month of Islam's lunar calendar, and the season to perform the hajj, the pilgrimage to...
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Apr. 16, 1965
...that was received with special enthusiasm was for the Religion story on Islam. Central to the story is the hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca's holy...
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May. 14, 1965
...gesture toward the pro-royalist tribesmen who consider Western clothes an affront to Islam. Neither Imam Badr nor any of his ranking chiefs were on hand...
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Aug. 27, 1965
...people−was deflated last week by news from South Celebes, where rightist Darul Islam rebels are fighting against the army. In Sukarno's newest acquisition, West Irian,...
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Sep. 24, 1965
...How can India consider Kashmir an integral part of India? ZEBUN N. ISLAM Providence Sir: We Pakistanis supported the U.S. against Russia. We treated you...
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Sep. 24, 1965
Five years ago a Norwegian statistician set a computer to work counting history's wars. The machine quickly, competently and a bit contemptuously announced that in 5,560 years of recorded human history there have been 14,531 wars, or, as the computer pointed out, 2.6135 a year. 185 generations of man's recorded experience, the machine noted with ...
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Sep. 24, 1965
When the bishops assembled in the aula of St. Peter's for the first session of the Vatican Council in 1962 their agenda contained 70 schemata (drafts of decrees) with drastic editing, the work load of the council has been brought down to a more manageable 16 items. Five have already been promulgated: decrees on mass ...
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Oct. 8, 1965
In medieval Europe, the soaring Gothic cathedral was a symbol of man's desire to build for the greater glory of God, with the best that art and nature could provide. The impulse has not died. Recently more than 10,000 people gathered in Kuala Lumpur to worship and admire at the formal opening of Malaysia's new ...
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Oct. 22, 1965
...of a longer declaration outlining the church's attitude toward other non-Christian faiths—including Islam. This draft was denounced violently by a number of cardinals, notably Boston's...
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Nov. 12, 1965
...Communist League, American Peace Crusade, National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, Nation of Islam, International Workers Order, Washington Bookshop Association, Fair Play for Cuba Committee, or...
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Jan. 7, 1966
...tongas ready to carry rice and curry to frontline soldiers. "Sons of Islam are meant to fight," said one, "not to allow their guns to...
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Feb. 18, 1966
...the Indians bearing Buddhism, the Persians, the White Huns, the Arabs preaching Islam, the Mongol hordes led by Genghis Khan all used Central Asia as...
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Feb. 25, 1966
It might, and should, have been a historic debate, a solemn, searching in quiry into the fundamental aims, origins and prospects of America's deepening commitment to a land war in Asia. If its five-day hearings on Viet Nam fell short of that ideal, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee may nonetheless have served well to quicken ...
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Mar. 11, 1966
...he looks militant enough in the dress blues of the Fruit of Islam, the Black Muslims' Special Forces, Boxer Cassius Clay, 24, is a peaceful...
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Apr. 8, 1966
...stamps for a school bus to be used at the University of Islam in Chicago. But there are quite a few indications that the trading-stamp...
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Apr. 22, 1966
...Yemen, Egypt still controls less than half of the country. Threat from Islam. Despite growing opposition to his Yemen policy at home, Nasser is not...
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Jun. 24, 1966
By Saudi Arabia's Islamic calendar, this year is 1386, and visitors to the-desert kingdom often feel that is about where Saudi Arabia stands on the Western calendar. Justice still decrees an eye for an eye. Marriages are arranged sight unseen. A few weeks ago the deputy rector of the Islamic University at Medina even came ...
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Jul. 1, 1966
WORLD WAR II was barely over and the great recessional of the colonial powers had not yet begun when Yale's Professor F.S.C. Northrop published The Meeting of East and West, in which he flatly described that meeting as "the major event of our time." To a U.S. deeply preoccupied with a seemingly shattered Europe, that ...
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Jul. 15, 1966
(See Cover) The Ikeya-Seki comet appeared on Indonesia's eastern horizon early one morning last October. From the base of the volcano Agung, navel of creation and home of the Great Gods, the mystic prophets of the island of Bali watched it streak through the sky for ten days and were alarmed. It was an omen, ...
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Jul. 29, 1966
The summer of 1966 threatens to yield one of the ugliest harvests of racial violence in memory. Partly because of the desperate new militance symbolized by the rallying cry of black power, partly because of the white man's ineptitude and uncertainty in meeting the Negro's legitimate needs, there is hardly a major city in the ...
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Sep. 9, 1966
In the West, Zarathustra, or Zoroaster, is a name meaningful chiefly to crossword-puzzle addicts and readers of Nietzsche. To the 100,000 Parsis of India who last week celebrated their New Year, the most sacred feast on their calendar, Zoroaster is still the one great prophet, the man who gave them their monotheistic faith in the ...
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Oct. 28, 1966
...their reform proposals, another group of ecclesiastical legal experts—the ulema (scholars) of Islam—was meeting in Cairo to update the Sharia, or code of spiritual rules,...
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Jan. 6, 1967
...of Africa for more than 1,500 years, despite the aggressive proselytizing of Islam. Most of its priests are uneducated and cannot understand the words of...
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Mar. 31, 1967
...allowed by Islamic law; on grounds of disinterest (as is permitted in Islam, he simply wrote her a note telling her she was out); after...
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May. 5, 1967
...prizefighter called Cassius Clay but a minister of the Lost-Found Nation of Islam in the Wilderness of North America (Black Muslims) named Muhammad Ali, the...
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May. 12, 1967
...life as cow worship. Both of India's major religions — Hinduism and Islam— endorse prohibition, and Mahatma Gandhi, the leader of India's independence movement, made...
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May. 19, 1967
...by side in bitter, sometimes bloody enmity ever since Turkish invaders brought Islam to the Indian subcontinent 900 years ago. Last week, in a dramatic...
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Jun. 2, 1967
...Council's declaration "On Non-Christian Religions," which approvingly cited the common bonds of Islam and Christianity—Moslems, for example, venerate Jesus as a prophet. The Vatican's Secretariat...
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Jun. 23, 1967
FOR months and perhaps years, debate will rage about the borders of Israel and about how much (if any) of its conquered territory it has a right to keep. That debate, while important, is secondary. The real issue is not Israel's specific size or shape but its basic right to exist. Most of the world ...
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Only up to 1967?
Yeah that was my choice to stop there. I figured most people know the history since then.
great find.
Very interesting search. I’m only up to 1930, but already some revealing observations, including the fact that then there were no such thing as Palestinians in the sense we know them today - known already but worthy of observation regardless. There were Muslim Arabs. Period.
And the conflict between Muslims and Jews was defined as such - a religious war, 99.5% one-sided - Muslims persecuting Jews. The riots in 1929 were started by and kept going by Muslims expressing hatred for Jews, and it was called an “Islamic pogrom.”
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,737743,00.html
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,737818-4,00.html
Also, one gets a feel for who was prominent in the Arab world, what leadership was respected, what was scorned, etc. Interesting to read of leaders like Ibn Saud before the Saudi dynasty, King Fisul of “Irak” and Abdullah of “Transjordania” etc.
Now I’m back to reading more. Thanks for the links.
It seems the people of the 1920s were a lot more aware of Islam than we are today. WW-II and the Cold War must have been very powerful (duh) to cause such a cultural amnesia. I was born in 1974, I had no sense of any of this stuff until I went looking for it.. it’s amazing how in a few generations , mankinds perceptions of itself can be completely obliterated.
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