Word: 7th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What Nasser has working for him is the deep desire of all Arabs to be united in a single Arab nation, and their conviction-grudging or enthusiastic-that Nasser represents the best hope of achieving it. This dream of unity harks back to the golden age of the 7th century when, spurred by the messianic Moslem religion handed down by Mohammed the Prophet. Arab warriors burst from their desert peninsula and conquered everything in sight. In less than 150 years, the Arabs swept victoriously north to Asia Minor and the walls of Byzantine Constantinople, south over Persia and Afghanistan...
...Horn of Africa without heed to national borders. Fiercely independent, the illiterate Moslem tribesmen fight savagely among themselves for grazing land, for this is the possession they hold most dear. A proud people, tall, lithe' and fine-featured, the Somalis are Hamitic in origin, descended in part from 7th century Arabs who crossed into Africa from Yemen. Forever vain about their heritage, they are also accustomed to having their...
...presume you are acquainted with the articles by Messrs. Boyle and Angell in Sports Ilustrated and the New Yorker, both about the pre-Yale game week, and which I thought were superb jobs. About the former I had a letter in the 19th Hole in the issue of January 7th, which you may have seen, and which, I think caught the spirit of the article...
...council's most impressive productions is a complete recording of the Koran on 44 disks, by the dean of Islam's Koran readers, Sheik Mahmoud el Hosaris. To make the Koran's 7th century message apply to modern problems, the council's 180 technical advisers are now turning out fresh commentaries on obscure phrases of the Prophet. They operate a fulltime answering service to resolve such religious scruples of the devout as whether a Moslem can accept a blood transfusion from a non-Moslem, and when abortion is lawful...
...7TH ANNUAL OF THE YEAR'S BEST S-F (399 pp.)-Edited by Judith Merril -Simon & Schuster...