Word: abdu
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...certain fixation on the past took hold alongside a deep uneasiness with the present. Religious reform did not take off. The Muhammad Abdu project to renew Islam the way Martin Luther reformed Christianity ended at the turn of 19th century in disarray, opening the way to more extreme versions of the religion. Efforts to modernize the Arab language and bridge the gap between the spoken vernaculars and the written classical did not materialize. Public spheres--such as a free press, trade unions, civil societies--for debating matters related to the common good were not established. And most important, Muslims...
With so many suitors, the newly independent states have been wary of making geopolitical commitments. Askar Akayev, President of Kyrgyzstan, wants his country to be "politically like Switzerland, but in the heart of Asia." Foreign Minister Abdu Kuliyev believes Turkmenistan should be "neither Islamic nor Soviet but a secular, democratic state." President Nursultan * Nazarbayev thinks Kazakhstan, which stretches from the Volga region of Russia to the western borders of China, should be a bridge between Europe and Asia. Says he: "We want to enter the democratic world like any other state...
...Adnan Abdu Hassan Ali, an Iraqi, was convicted of wearing a Saddam Hussein T-shirt the day allied forces drove Iraqi troops from Kuwait. No other charges against him were made public. He told the tribunal the shirt was given to him at the Iraqi school he attended before the invasion and that he only wore it around the house...
...Abdu-Rafiq Na'im Levy Oneonta...
...wrote over a hundred volumes and tablets setting forth his spiritual and social teachings. These included tablets sent to the principle political and ecclesiastical rulers of the time: Queen Victoria, Napoleon III, Kaiser Wilhelm I, Czar Alexander II, Kaiser Francis Joseph of Austria, President Grant, Pope Pius IX, Sultan 'Abdu'l-Aziz of Turkey, and Nasir'd-Din Shah of Iran. In these letters, he proclaimed the coming of a new Manifestation of God and exhorted them to lay down their arms and take hold of that which would be conducive to the unity of mankind. Some were warned...