Word: azhar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Egypt does not want a war." So says Egypt's Premier Abdel Nasser, leading statesman of the Arab world. But the supreme spiritual voice of all Islam in effect denies that protestation. From Cairo's 1,000-year-old Al Azhar University, the Committee of Senior Ulema* solemnly confirmed a jihad (holy war) against Israel...
Sitting cross-legged in their stocking feet in Cairo's vast, thousand-year-old El Azhar Mosque, Islam's two most important military chiefs, Egypt's General Mohammed Naguib and Syria's Colonel Adib Shishekly, heard an ancient, chilling summons. "A jihad (holy war) for the right and defense of the freedoms of people," demanded the sheik in his sermon. The jihad was designed to support "our brothers in North Africa in their struggle against imperialism" and to teach France an "eloquent lesson...
Erring Woman. The elders of Islam decided it was time to put the women in their place. From the Council of Ulemas of Al Azhar University, the supreme court of Islamic law, recently came a stern fatwa (Koranic interpretation) of the 1,3OO-year-old teachings of the Prophet Mohammed. The Koran's references to women, said the fatwa, clearly bar the 150,000,000 women of the Islamic world from voting and from holding public office. Allah gave this commandment because women are too influenced by their feelings and affections in making judgments; they are addicted to "straying...
Militant Woman. Not long ago such a pronouncement from Al Azhar would have put every veiled woman in Islam in her place. But it rolled off the arched backs of Egypt's feminists. Into the office of Egypt's new boss, General Mohammed Naguib, last week strode smartly styled Doria Shafik to demand a new deal for women. "You have broken the chains that bound the nation," she said, "and now . . . break the chains of the women who form half the nation...
...august council of ulema (professors) of Cairo's Al-Azhar, the oldest existing Moslem university, issued a solemn declaration against coeds. Coeducation, said the council, is nothing short of promiscuity, "unsuitable to the Islamic way of life." Furthermore, added the scholars, "this situation has turned certain male students from true scientific activity...