Word: imamate
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...firm believer in the possibility of a moderate Islam, one that Lévy himself sees in a battle to the death with radical believers from al-Qaeda. He follows the journalist as he pursues a shadowy figure named Mubarak Ali Shah Gilani, a former Brooklyn-based imam whom Lévy calls a "guru" of bin Laden's. He meets Pearl's contacts, spends time in the unheated, two-room hovel where Pearl was held and murdered nine days after his kidnapping. "I decided the best way to tell this story was step by step, even if that meant...
Like the museum, the libraries are belatedly under guard--in this case by Syed Munem El-Musawi, imam of the Imam Ul Huq Ali Mosque, and a group of Kalashnikov-toting volunteers from the impoverished Sadr City area of Baghdad, known until the city's liberation as Saddam City. It is from here that many of the looters came as well, and, says Ahmad Khalaf, 26, a software-engineering student, "we want to show the world that not everybody from our neighborhood is a thief and a looter...
...prayers were more impassioned here than in Riyadh. "Oh God, help Muslims against the depredations of Christians and Jews," intoned the young imam. "The Muslims of Palestine and Iraq are suffering. Come to their...
...attended afternoon prayers at Buraydah's main mosque, a new and elegant structure aglow with dozens of steel-and-glass chandeliers. The imam led the congregation in 'qunoot' prayers, a special invocation inserted into the regular 'namaaz' and until recently banned by the government...
...This week's Shiite pilgrimage to Kerbala to commemorate the 7th century slaying of the sect's then-leader, Imam Hussein, has been far more than a religious event. Around one million Iraqi Shiites crammed into the southern holy city in an emotional outpouring not only of spiritual fervor, but also communal pride and identity. Comprising 60 percent of Iraqis, they had long been banned from performing the ritual, and their celebration at Kerbala marked a conscious effort - encouraged by their clergy - to assert their determination to claim for the first time a say in Iraq's future commensurate with...