Word: islam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their journey beyond the veil, the women of Islam have traveled far; they have perhaps still farther to go, and to some the pull of the past is still stronger than the push into the future. But the doffing of the veil is more than a simple feminine gesture. It signalizes, and is almost necessary to, Islam's emergence into the fuller economic life of the 20th century. "That old life," says Lebanon's Dr. Saniyya Habbub, "was without responsibilities. Women had no liberties. Liberty entails responsibility. But it is its own compensation...
Never one to conceal her charms behind the veils of maidenly Moslem modesty, pretty Princess Aisha, 26, the French-educated eldest daughter of King Mohammed V of Morocco, is an ardent champion of women's rights in Islam, an area where a lot of pioneering remains to be done on the subject. Last week she carried her fight to Damascus, and proved herself as delectable an agitator as ever made an Arab forget John Foster Dulles. Syria, which had other things to worry about, feted her all week, put her up in a palace, provided her with a Cadillac...
...impetus came from an encyclical issued last Easter by Pope Pius XII, in which he warned that "atheistic materialism has spread its virus of division through various regions of Africa." At least one speaker, Father J. Alfred Richard of the White Fathers, linked Communism with the spread of Islam. Communists seek to weaken a powerful enemy, Christianity, said Father Richard, by fostering the spread of Islam, because they feel that modern Moslems have suffered a loss on conviction, lack bolstering authorities for their faith...
...again, and as a crowd of 50,000 voices shouted Merdeka (freedom), the Union Jack slowly fluttered down to be replaced by a red, white and blue flag very like that of the U.S., save that instead of 48 stars it bore the single star and crescent of Islam. After 83 years of British rule, Malaya was an independent nation...
...heart of an empire that stretched from the Pyrenees to the Punjab. Enlightened and energetic, Syria's new rulers drained the country's marshes, irrigated her steppe, gave Damascus a water system-still functioning-and converted the Byzantine Church of St. John the Baptist into one of Islam's great shrines, the Ommiad Mosque, still standing in gilded glory. For centuries, while Europe was in its dark ages, the Arabs were the light of civilization, preserving the ancient heritage of scholarship, devising Arabic numbers and making great strides in mathematics and science...