Word: islam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love," wrote the Aga Khan in his autobiography three years ago, "that time for me has fled on too swift a wing." Last week swift-winged time came to an end for the legendary old Prince of Islam. In a quiet lakeside villa at Versoix, Switzerland, his huge bulk wasted to a mere 132 Ibs., His Highness Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah, the Aga Khan III and spiritual leader of some 20 million Ismaili Moslems throughout the East, the Middle East and Africa, died...
...minority sect of Islam, whose origins lie deep in the feuds that rent the faithful after the death of the Prophet Mohammed, the Ismailis believe essentially that life is good and should be lived to the full. If at times their new Imam was seen in the public press to be sipping a glass of wine in contravention of the Prophet's orders, it could always be supposed that his divine powers turned the wine into water before it reached his lips, and "after all," as one of the faithful was supposed to have said, "why shouldn...
...strong-minded and worldly wise mother, his Moslem training tempered by English tutors, young Mahomed learned early to reconcile the vast differences in two disparate worlds and from the beginning cast his lot and his influence in the direction of British authority. When the Germans tried to win over Islam in World War I, the Aga Khan did much to keep his followers steadfast beside the British. A grateful Britain in return heaped him with imperial honors that ran all the way from a knighthood to membership in the exclusive Jockey Club, to which no Asian had ever been admitted...
...shocked to see you assert [June 24] that Kemal Ataturk "publicly described Islam as 'this theology of an immoral Arab.' " Ataturk never made such a statement-publicly or privately. Two biographies, which you must have used as your source material, can in no way be considered concrete, authoritative evidence. Ataturk achieved many great reforms, among which was the secularization of the Turkish state, but he never said, or even implied, that this separation of the state from religion was in favor of atheism or irreverence for Islam. Ataturk personally believed in the teachings of Islam...
...sees it, the drama of East and West has three acts and an optional ending. In Act I, lasting roughly from 500 B.C. to 1000 A.D.. the Far East (India, China) and the Mediterranean world made only fitful contact through commerce and, occasionally, war; the spread of Islam and the Mongol invasions actually "cut off Europe from any direct knowledge of the East." In Act II, lasting roughly from the 16th century to the early 20th, the West, vitalized by ideas of progress and purpose in man's life, turned its power on a static East still lost...