Word: islam
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accept. For some time, the Arabs have been agitating to make Hussein Calif, thereby displaying their dislike for the conditions with which the Nationalist Turks surrounded the Califate. It was by no means certain that any of the other Moslem countries would recognize King Hussein as the head of Islam. He is, however, more fitted to the Califate than most other candidates, because the blood of Koreish, tribe to which Mahammad belonged, runs through his veins; this, according to the Sunni Moslems is an indispensable condition to be fulfilled by a Calif. Then, again, the holy cities of Mecca...
...surest results of abolishing the Califate in Turkey?and it seems clear that 5% of the Mahammadans could not abolish it for Islam? is that it is certain to reduce Turkey's hitherto predominant position in Islam. If the Islamic world splits, Turkey may not suffer much, owing to her military strength; if it be unified under King Hussein, then Turkey's position in the eyes of other Moslems will indeed...
Professor Paul Pelliot, Professor of History, Literature, and Art of Central Asia at the College de France, Paris, will deliver the last of his Lowell Institute lectures on the history of Central Asia this evening at Huntington Hall. His subject will be "The Progress of Islam in Chinese Turkesian and China" The doors will open at 7.30 and close at 8 o'clock, when the lecture begins
Every great religion has its merits in proportion to the truth it inculcates. Christianity or Islam have developed certain phases and consequently have their place but it is futile to expect that ingrafted upon Hinduism they can bring about better results. That is why they have failed to appeal to the enlightened Hindus of India who find in Hindu-Dharma a deeper philosophy and a nobler conception of religion...
...home have assumed that the word Christian is an all-sufficing label . . . the missionaries' supporters at home are firm believers in prohibition, but the missionaries themselves know that the liquor traffic in the Ottoman Empire has been in the hands of native and Western Christians. . . . The city of Islam has been under Christians' control for four years and the sight of it has been such a rebuke as Christendom has not suffered since the great Moslem reformation first purged the decadent Eastern Christendom of the Middle Ages. ... I believe that American Protestantism and British Nonconformism have their greatest task still...