Word: islam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...generation ago, such exposure would have been tantamount to public nudity. The wearing of the veil-derived not from Koranic law but, like most feminine fashion, from an instinct for artful concealment-has largely disappeared from many modernized corners of Islam, but in Morocco it has hung on to become a symbol of woman's enslavement. Inside the palace, however, sits Morocco's foremost champion of unveiling: the Sultan's own daughter, Princess Lalla (Lady) Aisha...
...Israel & Islam (Contd...
...Israel & Islam...
...wake of Khrushchev and Bulganin, another spectacular but distinctly different visitor made his triumphal way across India last week. He was moose-tall (6 ft. 6 in.) King Saud of Arabia, 53, ruler over Islam's holiest places and the world's richest oil lands. His party of 234, including nine royal princes and a dozen sheiks, was seven times as large as that which accompanied Bulganin and Khrushchev. When some of India's 40 million Moslems tried to garland the King's head with flowers, strapping bodyguards, slung with pistols, gold-hilted scimitars and jeweled...
Confronted, Zolgadr at last confessed that he had received orders from Fadayan Islam to kill Ala "because he was treading in the path of treason...