Word: islam
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Hussein, like his people, is a figure caught between two worlds, and inside himself plays out many of the conflicts which rend the Middle East. He is the scion of one of Islam's proudest families, the 41st generation representative of the Hashemite clan in direct descent from the Prophet Mohammed. He is also the Westernized product of a British schooling, who likes nothing better than to tinker over a souped-up Cadillac at the Amman auto club, pilot his personal jet across the desert skies, or dance the Arabian nights out to Latin American jazz rhythms...
...later said. Churchill was repaying Abdullah's fighting services to Britain in Lawrence of Arabia's desert campaign (another hunk-Mesopotamia, now Iraq-was given to Abdullah's brother Feisal). Thenceforth, while Britain's Glubb Pasha built the British-equipped Arab Legion into Islam's sprucest fighting force, Abdullah ruled the sandy wastes as a Bedouin black-tent state...
...million Moslems, Ramadan is the crudest month. From the moment in the predawn light when a white thread can be distinguished from a black, through each long day until sunset, they must not smoke, drink, eat, or indulge any other carnal appetite. Across the world of Islam from Casablanca to Djakarta, tempers are scratchy and emotions combustible. But Sultan Mohammed V moved with the kind of inner calm that is his special quality. He retired to a small room to pray, then sat down to break his fast...
Slow-Won Wisdom. This combination of Islam and West, of Moroccan nationalist with French boules companions, is characteristic of this thin-voiced, soft-eyed man who sits hunched on the edge of his throne almost as if overwhelmed by its high-arching brocaded back. In the turbulent world of emergent Moslem nationalism, Mohammed. 47, is an all but unique example of instinctive moderation surrounded by intemperate ambition. His is a skillful balancing act between tradition, which can become stagnation, and progress, which can become confusion...
...moon with inscriptions in the cuneiform writing of ancient Mesopotamia. They had been placed face down for the faithful to walk on, presumably as a sign that the ancient religion was finally suppressed. Dr. Rice believes that traces of the old culture persisted until the 11th century A.D., when Islam was under attack by Christian crusaders, and Harran was an important Moslem defensive base...