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Those are only a few of the voices of Islam, as powerful and compelling today as the muezzin's ancient call of the faithful to prayer. The voices speak Russian and Chinese, Persian and French, Berber and Malay, Turkish and Urdu?and Arabic, of course, the mother tongue of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World of Islam | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

Eight words in Arabic sum up the central belief of the world's 750 million Muslims: "There is no god but God, and Muhammad is the Messenger of God." Five times a day, from Djakarta to Samarkand to Lagos, this shahada (confession of faith) is recited by the devout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: A Faith of Law and Submission | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

The huge treaty books were ready at last. Bound in gilt-edged blue morocco leather, there were nine copies of the document, one each for each participant in Hebrew, Arabic and English. White House crews had already tended the greening patch of grass at the site of the ceremony, placed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: In Celebration of Peace | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

On the Libyan revolution. Our revolution is based on an international ideology, not on a national movement. We have established what we call a "jamahiriya, "which can be defined [Gaddafi shifted from Arabic into English] as "a state run by the people without a government." We believe if governments disappeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: An Interview with Gaddafi | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

Mintoff has been as wary of the Soviets as he has of the British and their NATO allies. He barred the U.S. Sixth Fleet from liberty visits to Malta in 1972. But he has also refused to let Moscow establish an embassy. Mintoff has tried to pursue a course that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MALTA: Our Sad Adieu | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

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