Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...regarded him as merely another prophet of Israel, and denounced Peter and Paul for preaching his message to the Gentiles. Now extraordinary new light has been cast on the beliefs of one such sect of Jewish Christians known as the Nassoreans or Nazarenes, in the form of a medieval Arab manuscript discovered in the archives of Istanbul. Biblical Scholar David Flusser of Jerusalem's Hebrew University, one of the world's ranking experts on early church history, calls the discovery "as important for the story of the first Christians as the Dead Sea Scrolls were for understanding...
Under the terms of the agreement, Baghdad promises to observe "two nationalisms in Iraq, Arab and Kurdish," decentralize government down to a local level and thus guarantee limited Kurdish autonomy, recognize the Kurdish language "on equal terms with Arabic" in Kurdish areas, guarantee proportional representation of Kurds (10% to 15% of the population) in government jobs and the military. "It is only fair and practical," Bazzaz said over television, "to recognize that the Kurds have their own nationalism. God willed that they be Kurds, and we Arabs, and after all, we are all descendants of Adam." Bazzaz read a message...
...acre campus, with its mixture of Moorish sandstone and modern concrete buildings, Arab thobes mix with Indian saris and African robes. Although 59 nations, stretching from China to the U.S., are represented, 75% of A.U.B.'s 3,245 students and two-thirds of its 628 teachers are Arabs, and any attempts at pro-U.S. or Christian indoctrination are forbidden. This follows the dictum of A.U.B.'s founder, Missionary Daniel Bliss, that "a man, white, black, or yellow, Christian, Jew, Mohammedan or heathen may enter . . . and go out believing in one God, or many Gods...
Escorted Coeds. By blending Bliss's spiritual impartiality with American academic know-how, A.U.B. has become the most influential educational institution in the Middle East. It was the first Arab university to offer coed classes, although some women until the '30s wore veils and were escorted to class by male relatives. A.U.B. operated the first (1905), and still the best, teaching hospital in the Moslem world, introduced X-ray equipment in 1899, and open-heart surgery in 1959. The most visible evidence of its impact, however, has been the quality of its graduates. When the founding conference...
Situated at the crossroads of Occident and Orient, frequently buffeted by the cross winds of Arab nationalism and Moslem dogmatism, A.U.B. has from its beginning been torn by controversy. As early as 1882, 43 years before the Scopes trial in the U.S., A.U.B. Professor Edwin R. Lewis endorsed Darwin's evolution theories in a commencement speech and was forced to resign in the ensuing furor. Striking students clashed with police in 1952, when A.U.B. banned pro-Arab politicking on campus, then disbanded the student government. Last spring the ultrasensitive government of Lebanon, serving a population half Moslem and half...