Word: islam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moulay Hassan summoned the Cabinet and called his father Ben Youssef on the phone. Next morning the Moroccan state radio broadcast a royal proclamation declaring that Addi ou Bihi had been fired from the governership and that "anyone who continues to obey him will be considered a traitor to Islam." That did it. Two battalions of the royal Moroccan army, plowing through 150 miles of snow-covered mountain roads, found the old hawk-nosed Berber chieftain camped in the cedar forest with only 200 warriors still standing beside him. "Présentez armes!" cried Addi. The ..warriors snapped to attention...
Pilgrims' Progress. Saud has also tried to ease the lot of Islam's pilgrims. Every year 200,000 of them make the long trek to Mecca to kiss the Sacred Black Stone and walk the ritual seven times around the Kaaba. Once thousands died of sunstroke or disease, and local Arabs fleeced them of their last pennies. Saud established first-aid stations, erected sun shelters, built a $3,000,000 quarantine station at Jiddah, allocated $132 million to refurbish the Great Mosque, straighten Mecca's streets, expand its accommodations. The pilgrim's head tax (among...
Russian techniques for discrediting religion have succeeded to such an extent in the Middle East that according to Richard N. Frye, associate professor of Middle Eastern Studies, Islam cannot hope to survive, at least in "the short...
...Islam can survive," Frye told the first meeting of the Harvard Muslim Society, but added that over a longer period of time the sacraments and traditions of Islam can perhaps retain sufficient hold on the people of Central Asia to enable the religion and culture to stay alive...
Richard N. Frye, associate professor of Middle Eastern Studies, will speak on "Islam and the Soviet Union" tonight at 8:30 p.m. in Phillips Brooks House. The lecture will be sponsored by the Muslim Society at Harvard...