Word: islam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Loosely organized, Islam is the religion of a people separated by deserts and living in hard climates. Without a head prelate, a religious hierarchy or even an ordained priesthood, it has its center of activity at El Azhar University in Cairo (enrollment: 15,000). El Azhar, the largest Moslem university in the world, .draws students who walk there from as far as Addis Ababa; its graduates have vast prestige among Moslems in their own countries...
...Islam does not maintain that its prophet, Mohamed, was divine; it does not deny Jesus (Issa), but calls Him the divinely sent redeemer rather than the Son of God. It permits limited polygamy,* strictly enforces prohibition, but believes in a paradise full of rich, non-intoxicating wines...
...both her divorce, ("He never earned a cent . . . made me serve him breakfast in bed") and the right to raise their 17-month-old daughter as a Methodist. Mohamed II was horrified, claimed that some 200,000,000 Moslems would be, too. "The Princess," he declared, "belongs to all Islam." His wife's attorneys thought otherwise. Had he not dreamed up his claim to the Turkish throne while working as a pants presser in London? Cried the Emir: "It's a lie!" Was he really a subject of Turkey? Certainly not. "Turkey is a subject...
...struggle between the two systems, the capitalist powers have three lines of strategy. They must: 1) try to turn the social-democratic parties and non-Communist trade unions into allies; 2) strengthen the Catholic and Protestant Churches and Islam; 3) encourage fascism "in a veiled form." The Catholic Church, Varga charges, is organizing a "Catholic International...
Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock, a mosaic-walled mosque in a corner of the Old City, is Islam's third holiest shrine. From the Rock, Mohamed, led by the Angel Gabriel, ascended on el-Buraq, his eagle-winged mare with the human face, to visit the seven heavens of Islam. (Mohamed's footprint, judged by Mark Twain to be about size 18, is still pointed out to true believers; in the 12th Century it was shown as the footprint of Christ.) Here the muezzin's wail is still heard from the upper air, calling...