Word: allahu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Allahu akbar! Allahu akbar! Allahu akbar!" The call to prayer echoes forth from a minaret in Tashkent, as it has from mosques throughout the 13 centuries of Islam. "Was it loud enough?" asks the mullah who will lead the prayers. That is an eminently reasonable question, since in the Soviet Union no muezzin is allowed to use a loudspeaker. The inquiry is also metaphorical. In the U.S.S.R.'s fourth largest city and leading Islamic center, as elsewhere across the nation, believers are cautiously regaining their public voice after an oppressively enforced silence...
...Tunis courtroom while Judge Hachemi Zammel forcefully read out each verdict and sentence. Their trademark beards had been shaved off when they were jailed in a series of roundups earlier this year, but their piety remained intact. When the judge completed his task, the prisoners broke into refrains of "Allahu Akbar" (God is great). Seven were sentenced to death, 69 to jail terms, and 14 were acquitted. Thirty-seven of the accused, including five of those marked for execution, were still in hiding and were tried in absentia...
...penitents swarmed around the Sacred Mosque, where the devout come to touch the Black Stone, a meteorite inside the shrine that millions of pilgrims have worn smooth over the centuries in the belief that it will absolve them of sin. Suddenly the worshipers' hymns and shouts of Allahu-Akhbar! (God is great) were drowned out. Crying "Death to America! Death to the Soviet Union! Death to Israel!," ragged lines of Iranian demonstrators began weaving through the crowds. Many carried posters of Khomeini that they waved over the heads of the faithful. Their alleged aim: to seize the Sacred Mosque...
...Tehran, tens of thousands took to the rooftops chanting "Allahu akbar" (God is great). Automobile drivers honked their horns, and mosques sounded the azan, the Muslim call to prayer. As the extent of the Iraqi defeat became known, Iranian leaders declared that they would stop at nothing, including the invasion of Iraq, in order to achieve two objectives: the downfall of Saddam Hussein and the collection of huge war reparations. Tehran has been telling Arab governments that Iran has a right to square accounts with an aggressor that has inflicted more than $100 billion in damage, killed and maimed tens...
Then, without waiting for orders, 500 Iranian Islamic Guards and militiamen leaped out of their trenches swinging West German G3 and Soviet Kalashnikov rifles and Soviet antitank rocket launchers. Screaming "Allahu Akbar!" (God is great), they charged the advancing Iraqis and were quickly locked in savage hand-to-hand combat. Meanwhile, the Iranian regular army commander, startled by the untimely appearance of his fanatic countrymen directly in his line of fire, was obliged to redirect his guns to the rear of the enemy formations in order to avoid killing fellow Iranians...