Word: arabian
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Carter prays these days, but it is also noted that he sent the aircraft carrier Constellation to the Arabian Sea even in the midst of his spiritual ministrations for peace in the Middle East. Is he becoming a little more of an Old Testament figure? The President laughs. "I think so," he says. "There's a good balance. It is a very vivid demonstration of the importance of American military strength when it is used for peaceful purposes." This latter-day Isaiah is trying his best to beat some of our swords into plowshares, but inside Jimmy Carter...
...growing community, now a million strong. Yet Islam itself has had a dynamic manifest destiny; in a sense, it is a political faith with a yearning for expansion. Less than a hundred years after the death of Muhammad in A.D. 632, his followers had burst out of the Arabian desert to conquer and create an empire whose glories were to shine for a thousand years. A cavalry of God, they conquered the Persian Empire and much of the Byzantine, spreading the faith through Northern Africa into Spain, and through the Middle East to the Indus River. From there, devout Arab...
...number of recent events have combined to focus Western attention on Islam: the resurgence of the faith in African politics, the oil wealth of the Arabian peninsula, the revolution in Iran. But many Muslims feel, with some justice, that this belated interest in their world and their faith has resulted in hostile propaganda rather than empathy and understanding...
There were, however, great Orientalist scholars; there were genuine attempts, like that of Richard Burton [British explorer who translated the Arabian Nights], at coming to terms with Islam. Still, gross ignorance persisted, as it will whenever fear of the different gets translated into attempts at domination. The U.S. inherited the Orientalist legacy, and uncritically employed it in its universities, mass media, popular culture, imperial policy. In films and cartoons, Muslim Arabs, for example, are represented either as bloodthirsty mobs, or as hooknosed, lecherous sadists. Academic experts decreed that in Islam everything is Islamic, which amounted to the edifying notions that...
After two days of stormy meetings, the OPEC ministers agreed to raise their prices for the second time in a little more than three months-on this occasion by 9%, bringing the cost of a barrel of the marker crude, Saudi Arabian light oil, to $14.55 per bbl. Though that alone would fatten OPEC'S already bulging bank accounts with an additional $20 billion annually from the U.S., Western Europe and Japan, as well as more foreign exchange from the have-not nations of the Third World, the cartel also moved to allow individual members to stick on whatever...