Word: islam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...city, clung tenaciously to Sin. Dr. Rice has found references in many ancient languages to the city's extreme conservatism. The rise and fall of the Roman Empire meant little to it. Christianity stopped at its walls; Harran held fast to the ancient faith. Even Islam came to terms with the conservatives of Harran...
...royal visitor in Saudi Arabia, Iran's handsome Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi donned a seamless broadcloth robe, joined other pilgrims in a trek to Mecca, Islam's holiest city...
East Indonesia's 12 million inhabitants have long been hostile to the "Java-centric" government in Djakarta. A sprawling collection of islands which includes Celebes, the Moluccas and fabled Bali, East Indonesia has spawned half a dozen revolutionary movements-among them the fanatically Moslem Darul Islam and the so-called "Republic of the South Moluccas." At the head of last week's bloodless coup, however, was no sworn foe of the government but one of President Sukarno's favorites-handsome, 35-year-old Lieut. Colonel Ventje Sumual. A onetime sergeant in the Dutch army, and a Christian...
...Editors of LIFE (TIME Inc.-Simon & Schuster; $13.50). Compiled with the aid of ten writers, 82 experts and the full photographic resources of LIFE, this expansion of the magazine's famed Great Religions series of 1955 takes readers on a guided tour of Hinduism, Buddhism. Chinese philosophy. Islam. Judaism and Christianity...
Aboard President Eisenhower's personal Constellation Columbine, Saudi Arabia's brown-robed King Saud began his journey back to the Middle East. Moslem monarch of the hour, he bore all the prestige of the ruler of Islam's heartland and of the world's richest oil lands, reinforced by a resplendent reception in Washington. After regal stops in Spain and North Africa, he wall head toward Nasser's Cairo. There the two leaders of the Arab world will meet-with their allies President Kuwatly of Syria and King Hussein of Jordan-to hear of Saud...